Conjunction of Mars and Regulus, October 24, 2028
Conjunction of Mars and Regulus: October 24, 2028 at 6:07 AM in New York (24 Oct 2028, 10:06 UTC). At that moment Mars is 44° above the horizon in the ESE, as seen from New York.
The sky at that moment
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6:07 AMTue, Oct 24
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What happens
In a conjunction two objects pass close to each other in our sky. They are not near each other in space: they only line up as seen from Earth. The time shown is the closest approach, measured from the centre of the Earth.
At their closest the two are 1.0° apart in the sky.
Calculated with Astronomy Engine, an open-source library verified against the US Naval Observatory and NASA JPL. Data sources