Uranus and Neptune will share the same right ascension, with Uranus passing 53' to the south of Neptune.
From South El Monte , the pair will be visible in the morning sky, becoming accessible around 01:18, when they reach an altitude of 21° above your south-eastern horizon. They will then reach their highest point in the sky at 04:17, 37° above your southern horizon. They will be lost to dawn twilight around 04:20, 37° above your southern horizon.
Uranus will be at mag 5.7, and Neptune at mag 7.9, both in the constellation Capricornus.
The pair will be a little too widely separated to fit comfortably within the field of view of a telescope, but will be visible through a pair of binoculars.
A graph of the angular separation between Uranus 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 |
| Uranus | 20h27m20s | 19°44'S | Capricornus | 5.7 | 3"6 |
| Neptune | 20h27m20s | 18°51'S | Capricornus | 7.9 | 2"3 |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 129° from the Sun, which is in Taurus at this time of year.
The sky on 6 Aug 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.