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 Collinder 50

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The Moon and Collinder 50 will make a close approach, passing within 1°21' of each other. The Moon will be 13 days old.

From Cambridge , the pair will be visible between 17:17 and 05:03. They will become accessible at around 17:17, when they rise to an altitude of 11° above your eastern horizon. They will reach their highest point in the sky at 23:10, 63° above your southern horizon. They will become inaccessible at around 05:03 when they sink below 11° above your western horizon.

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The Moon will be at mag -12.8; and Collinder 50 will be at mag 1.0. 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 to the naked eye or through a pair of binoculars.

A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and Collinder 50 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 04h26m20s 17°20'N Taurus -12.8 32'48"1
Collinder 50 04h27m00s 16°00'N Taurus 1.0 0"0

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 172° from the Sun, which is in Ophiuchus at this time of year.

The sky on 5 Dec 2033

The sky on 5 December 2033
Sunrise
06:55
Sunset
16:10
Twilight ends
17:51
Twilight begins
05:14

13-day old moon
Waning Gibbous

99%

13 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 06:08 10:51 15:35
Venus 06:21 11:03 15:45
Moon 16:10 23:28 06:50
Mars 11:44 17:03 22:23
Jupiter 11:37 16:54 22:10
Saturn 18:44 02:12 09:40
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.

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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