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

Conjunction of Mercury and Uranus

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Mercury and Uranus will share the same right ascension, with Mercury passing 2°39' to the north of Uranus.

From Columbus however, the pair will not be readily observable since they will be very close to the Sun, at a separation of only 20° from it.

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Mercury will be at mag 0.1, and Uranus at mag 5.8, both in the constellation Taurus.

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

A graph of the angular separation between Mercury and Uranus 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
Mercury 04h26m10s 24°17'N Taurus 0.1 7"7
Uranus 04h26m10s 21°37'N Taurus 5.8 3"4

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 21° from the Sun, which is in Aries at this time of year.

The sky on 7 May 2028

The sky on 7 May 2028
Sunrise
06:22
Sunset
20:32
Twilight ends
22:19
Twilight begins
04:35

13-day old moon
Waxing Gibbous

99%

13 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:19 14:52 22:24
Venus 07:50 15:38 23:25
Moon 19:46 00:45 05:40
Mars 05:57 12:46 19:35
Jupiter 15:17 21:41 04:05
Saturn 05:54 12:32 19:11
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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