Mars and 1 Ceres will share the same right ascension, with Mars passing 9°04' to the north of 1 Ceres.
From South El Monte , the pair will be visible in the morning sky, becoming accessible around 00:48, when they reach an altitude of 21° above your eastern horizon. They will then reach their highest point in the sky at 05:07, 58° above your southern horizon. They will be lost to dawn twilight around 05:08, 58° above your southern horizon.
Mars will be at mag -1.1 in the constellation Aries, and 1 Ceres at mag 8.5 in the neighbouring constellation of Cetus.
A graph of the angular separation between Mars and 1 Ceres 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 | 02h29m00s | 11°22'N | Aries | -1.1 | 14"4 |
| 1 Ceres | 02h29m00s | 2°17'N | Cetus | 8.5 | 0"0 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 111° from the Sun, which is in Leo at this time of year.
The sky on 11 Jul 2026
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All times shown in PDT.
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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.