Sunset Conjunction 2026 Max – June 09th

This is as close as Jupiter and Venus will get (from our viewpoint) for this year’s conjunction. Not quite as spectacular as it was a few years ago (there are pictures in the archives here) but better than it will be for several more years.

Jupiter and Venus in the upper left (Venus is the brighter one to the upper right of Jupiter), Mercury just above that lone tree near the bottom, just to the right of center.

From here they start to separate in our field of view. Jupiter is headed toward a passage behind the Sun from our point of view, off to the morning dawn in July, and gone from the evening sunset by the end of June. Venus will hang around for weeks. Mercury will get a little higher, then follow Jupiter toward the dawn. And in about 8-10 days, the crescent Moon will be up here in the mix.

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