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Conjunction
Moon–Venus Conjunction
Moon and Venus appear about 1.6° apart in Capricornus.
Your local time
5 Mar 2027, 02:03
Universal time
4 Mar 2027, 20:33 UTC
Countdown
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Partially visible from New Delhi, IndiaNaked EyeVisible worldwide where sky conditions allow
Moon and Venus pass close together on the sky, separated by roughly 1.6 degrees at closest approach. They are not physically near each other — this is a line-of-sight alignment — but the pairing is striking to the unaided eye and easily fits in a single binocular field.
Observation details
- Visibility
- Partially visible
- Best viewing time
- 5 Mar 2027, 05:33
- Direction to look
- E · azimuth 94°
- Altitude at peak
- -33.0°
- Equipment
- Naked Eye
- Minimum separation
- 1.63°
- Constellation
- Capricornus
The event's peak happens below your horizon, but the same part of the sky reaches 11° later in the night.
New Delhi, India
28.6139°, 77.2090° · default location
Photography & observing tips
- •Both objects fit comfortably in a single binocular field, and often in a telescope's low-power field.
- •Wide-angle shots that include foreground landscape make the pairing far more striking.
- •Twilight conjunctions photograph beautifully — expose for the sky, not the planets.
Other conjunction events
The nearest occurrences before and after this one.