Venus and Mars will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 2°01' to the south of Mars.

From Cambridge , the pair will be difficult to observe as they will appear no higher than 15° above the horizon. They will become visible at around 16:57 (EDT), 15° above your south-western horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then sink towards the horizon, setting 2 hours and 48 minutes after the Sun at 19:01.

Venus will be at mag -4.6, and Mars at mag 1.1, both in the constellation Sagittarius.

The pair will be too widely separated to fit 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 Venus and Mars around the time of closest approach is available here.

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

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 42° from the Sun, which is in Scorpius at this time of year.

The sky on 26 Nov 2029

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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