The Moon and Jupiter will share the same right ascension, with the Moon passing 24' to the south of Jupiter. The Moon will be 27 days old.
At around the same time, the two objects will also make a close approach, technically called an appulse.
From Fairfield , the pair will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 05:34 (EDT) – 1 hour and 38 minutes before the Sun – and reaching an altitude of 11° above the south-eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 06:53.
The Moon will be at mag -9.5, and Jupiter at mag -1.8, both in the constellation Sagittarius.
The pair will be close enough to fit within the field of view of a telescope, but will also be visible to the naked eye or through a pair of binoculars.
A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and Jupiter 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 |
| The Moon | 17h50m30s | 23°29'S | Sagittarius | -9.5 | 33'14"3 |
| Jupiter | 17h50m30s | 23°05'S | Sagittarius | -1.8 | 31"2 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 24° from the Sun, which is in Sagittarius at this time of year.
The sky on 23 Jul 2024
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All times shown in EDT.
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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.