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 Saturn

Dominic Ford, Editor
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The Moon and Saturn will share the same right ascension, with the Moon passing 8°01' to the north of Saturn. The Moon will be 25 days old.

From Fairfield , the pair will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 01:37 (EDT) – 3 hours and 42 minutes before the Sun – and reaching an altitude of 33° above the eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 04:40.

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The Moon will be at mag -11.4, and Saturn at mag 0.4, both in the constellation Pisces.

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

A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and Saturn 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 01h40m00s 15°50'N Pisces -11.4 31'12"9
Saturn 01h40m00s 7°48'N Pisces 0.4 17"2

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 67° from the Sun, which is in Gemini at this time of year.

The sky on 28 Jun 2027

The sky on 28 June 2027
Sunrise
05:19
Sunset
20:29
Twilight ends
22:37
Twilight begins
03:11

24-day old moon
Waning Crescent

26%

24 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:07 12:20 19:33
Venus 04:30 12:01 19:32
Moon 00:45 07:38 14:44
Mars 11:33 17:51 00:10
Jupiter 09:19 16:14 23:08
Saturn 01:37 08:07 14:38
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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