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

Conjunction of Mars and Neptune

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Mars and Neptune will share the same right ascension, with Mars passing 2°25' to the north of Neptune.

From Newark , the pair will become visible at around 17:59 (EST), 55° above your southern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then sink towards the horizon, setting at 00:12.

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Mars will be at mag 0.3, and Neptune at mag 7.9, both in the constellation Pisces.

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 Mars and Neptune 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
Mars 01h21m20s 9°12'N Pisces 0.3 8"1
Neptune 01h21m20s 6°46'N Pisces 7.9 2"2

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 89° from the Sun, which is in Sagittarius at this time of year.

The sky on 22 Nov 2024

The sky on 22 November 2024
Sunrise
06:49
Sunset
16:32
Twilight ends
18:09
Twilight begins
05:13

21-day old moon
Waning Crescent

44%

21 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 08:42 13:10 17:37
Venus 10:15 14:43 19:11
Moon 22:20 05:35 12:39
Mars 20:57 04:18 11:40
Jupiter 17:31 00:57 08:23
Saturn 13:12 18:45 00:17
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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