@nudge, get your telescope ready and as @MUFC would say "any pics?"
Edit: Shite, just spotted this below...
They will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope but will be visible to the naked eye or through a pair of binoculars.
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Nov. 25: The waxing, gibbous moon will be in conjunction with Mars at 2:46 p.m. EST (1946 GMT). Look for the pair above the eastern horizon after sunset.
The Moon in conjunction with Venus and Jupiter, with the Very Large Telescope in the foreground. Image © Y. Beletsky, ESO, 2009.
The Moon and Mars will make a close approach, passing within 4°27' of each other. The Moon will be 11 days old.
From St Helens, the pair will be visible in the evening sky, becoming accessible around 16:28 (GMT) as the dusk sky fades, 19° above your eastern horizon. They will then reach their highest point in the sky at 20:50, 42° above your southern horizon. They will continue to be observable until around 02:32 when they sink below 8° above your western horizon.
The Moon will be at mag -12.4 in Cetus, and Mars will be at mag -1.3 in Pisces.
They will be too widely separated to fit within the field of view of a telescope but will be visible to the naked eye or through a pair of binoculars.
At around the same time, the pair will also share the same right ascension – called a conjunction.
A graph of the angular separation between the Moon and Mars around the time of closest approach is available here.
The positions of the pair at the moment of closest approach will be as follows:
Object
Right Ascension
Declination
Constellation
Magnitude
Angular Size
The Moon
01h06m20s
+01°56'
Cetus
-12.4
29'27"6
Mars
00h58m50s
+05°59'
Pisces
-1.3
15"4
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0. The pair will be at an angular separation of 131° from the Sun, which is in Scorpius at this time of year.
THE SKY ON 25 NOVEMBER 2020
Sunrise
07:54
Sunset
16:01
Twilight ends
18:07
Twilight begins
05:48
Waxing Gibbous
83%
10 days old
Planets
Rise
Culm.
Set
Mercury
06:33
11:03
15:33
Venus
05:03
10:04
15:05
Moon
14:44
20:51
01:51
Mars
14:13
20:49
03:29
Jupiter
11:43
15:39
19:35
Saturn
11:50
15:51
19:51
All times are shown in GMT.
Source
The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.
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