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 Haumea

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Venus and 136108 Haumea will share the same right ascension, with Venus passing 5°12' to the north of 136108 Haumea.

From South El Monte however, the pair will not be observable – they will reach their highest point in the sky during daytime and will be no higher than 2° above the horizon at dawn.

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Venus will be at mag -4.0, and 136108 Haumea at mag 16.0, both in the constellation Capricornus.

A graph of the angular separation between Venus and 136108 Haumea 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 21h07m20s 16°48'S Capricornus -4.0 12"8
136108 Haumea 21h07m20s 22°00'S Capricornus 16.0 0"0

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 33° from the Sun, which is in Aquarius at this time of year.

The sky on 25 Jun 2026

The sky on 25 June 2026
Sunrise
05:39
Sunset
20:07
Twilight ends
21:52
Twilight begins
03:54

11-day old moon
Waxing Gibbous

88%

11 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:24 14:24 21:24
Venus 08:48 15:43 22:38
Moon 16:51 21:50 02:45
Mars 03:20 10:17 17:15
Jupiter 07:36 14:39 21:42
Saturn 01:19 07:30 13:42
All times shown in PDT.

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.

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