The Moon in conjunction with Venus and Jupiter, with the Very Large Telescope in the foreground. Image © Y. Beletsky, ESO, 2009.

Conjunction of the Moon and Venus

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The Moon and Venus will share the same right ascension, with the Moon passing 31' to the north of Venus. The Moon will be 3 days old.

At around the same time, the two objects will also make a close approach, technically called an appulse.

From Fairfield however, the pair will not be observable – they will reach their highest point in the sky during daytime and will be no higher than 7° above the horizon at dusk.

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The Moon will be at mag -10.3, and Venus at mag -4.5, both in the constellation Virgo.

The pair will be a little too widely separated to fit comfortably within the field of view of a telescope, but will be visible to the naked eye or through a pair of binoculars.

A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and Venus around the time of closest approach is available here.

The positions of the two objects at the moment of conjunction will be as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
The Moon 13h52m30s 16°31'S Virgo -10.3 30'29"0
Venus 13h52m30s 17°02'S Virgo -4.5 36"7

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 40° from the Sun, which is in Leo at this time of year.

The sky on 14 Sep 2026

The sky on 14 September 2026
Sunrise
06:29
Sunset
19:03
Twilight ends
20:38
Twilight begins
04:55

3-day old moon
Waxing Crescent

15%

3 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:46 13:41 19:36
Venus 10:10 15:10 20:11
Moon 10:19 15:26 20:26
Mars 01:24 08:52 16:20
Jupiter 03:30 10:33 17:37
Saturn 19:58 02:10 08:21
All times shown in EDT.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.

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Image credit

The Moon in conjunction with Venus and Jupiter, with the Very Large Telescope in the foreground. Image © Y. Beletsky, ESO, 2009.

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