Moon near Mars
Exact moment (showing UTC)
- Planet
- Mars
- Brightness
- magnitude -1.9
- Separation
- 0.5°
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What is happening
The Moon passes 0.5° from Mars, making the planet easy to identify: it is the bright point right beside the Moon.
Positions come from the JPL approximate planetary elements and are good to a few arcminutes; timings are accurate to within an hour or so.