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

Conjunction of Venus and Eris

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Venus and 136199 Eris will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 7°28' to the north of 136199 Eris.

From Fairfield however, the pair will not be observable – they will reach their highest point in the sky during daytime and will be 10° below the horizon at dawn.

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Venus will be at mag -3.9, and 136199 Eris at mag 18.6, both in the constellation Pisces.

A graph of the angular separation between Venus and 136199 Eris 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
Venus 01h55m00s 10°05'N Pisces -3.9 10"8
136199 Eris 01h55m00s 2°37'N Pisces 18.6 0"0

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 23° from the Sun, which is in Taurus at this time of year.

The sky on 14 May 2035

The sky on 14 May 2035
Sunrise
05:33
Sunset
20:02
Twilight ends
21:55
Twilight begins
03:40

7-day old moon
Waxing Gibbous

61%

7 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 06:15 13:45 21:15
Venus 04:39 11:17 17:56
Moon 12:35 19:30 02:18
Mars 01:53 06:56 11:58
Jupiter 04:44 11:28 18:13
Saturn 10:10 17:31 00:51
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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