Conjunction of Venus and Antares, October 16, 2029

Conjunction of Venus and Antares: October 16, 2029 at 2:18 PM in New York (16 Oct 2029, 18:18 UTC). At that moment Venus is 21° above the horizon in the SSE, as seen from New York.

The sky at that moment

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2:18 PMTue, Oct 16

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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 1.3° apart in the sky.

Calculated with Astronomy Engine, an open-source library verified against the US Naval Observatory and NASA JPL. Data sources

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