Jupiter in conjunction with the Sun
Exact moment (showing UTC)
- Planet
- Jupiter
- Brightness
- magnitude -2.0
Choose a location to see whether Jupiter is up from your city around this time.
What is happening
Jupiter is on the far side of the Sun, hidden in its glare. It returns to the morning sky a few weeks later.
Positions come from the JPL approximate planetary elements and are good to a few arcminutes; timings are accurate to within an hour or so.