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

Close approach of the Moon and Uranus

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The Moon and Uranus will make a close approach, passing within 1°25' of each other. The Moon will be 18 days old.

From Fairfield , the pair will be visible in the morning sky, becoming accessible around 20:24, when they reach an altitude of 21° above your eastern horizon. They will then reach their highest point in the sky at 01:50, 72° above your southern horizon. They will be lost to dawn twilight around 05:26, 41° above your western horizon.

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The Moon will be at mag -12.5; and Uranus will be at mag 5.6. Both objects will lie in the constellation Taurus.

They 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 the Moon and Uranus around the time of closest approach is available here.

The positions of the pair at the moment of closest approach will be as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
The Moon 05h23m10s 21°49'N Taurus -12.5 29'25"1
Uranus 05h23m20s 23°15'N Taurus 5.6 3"8

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 148° from the Sun, which is in Libra at this time of year.

The sky on 12 Nov 2030

The sky on 12 November 2030
Sunrise
06:34
Sunset
16:36
Twilight ends
18:11
Twilight begins
04:59

17-day old moon
Waning Gibbous

90%

17 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 08:14 12:47 17:20
Venus 07:06 11:59 16:53
Moon 17:40 01:11 08:43
Mars 01:52 08:08 14:24
Jupiter 07:46 12:34 17:21
Saturn 17:31 00:46 08:00
All times shown in EST.

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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