Jupiter and Neptune will share the same right ascension, with Jupiter passing 1°05' to the south of Neptune.
From South El Monte , the pair will be visible in the evening sky, becoming accessible around 20:50 (PDT), 30° above your southern horizon, as dusk fades to darkness. They will then reach their highest point in the sky at 22:05, 33° above your southern horizon. They will continue to be observable until around 00:45, when they sink below 21° above your south-western horizon.
Jupiter will be at mag -2.6, and Neptune at mag 7.9, both in the constellation Sagittarius.
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 Jupiter 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 |
| Jupiter | 18h08m10s | 23°22'S | Sagittarius | -2.6 | 44"0 |
| Neptune | 18h08m10s | 22°17'S | Sagittarius | 7.9 | 2"3 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 141° from the Sun, which is in Cancer at this time of year.
The sky on 26 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.