Mars and 136472 Makemake will share the same right ascension, with Mars passing 2°43' to the south of 136472 Makemake.
From South El Monte , the pair will be visible in the dawn sky, rising at 01:38 (PDT) and reaching an altitude of 33° above the south-eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 05:27.
Mars will be at mag 1.0, and 136472 Makemake at mag 16.8, both in the constellation Ophiuchus.
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 136472 Makemake 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 | 16h55m20s | 22°13'S | Ophiuchus | 1.0 | 6"1 |
| 136472 Makemake | 16h55m20s | 19°29'S | Ophiuchus | 16.8 | 0"0 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 75° from the Sun, which is in Aquarius at this time of year.
The sky on 15 Jun 2026
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Source
The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE440 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.