The two celestial bodies will come close to the red supergiant star Aldebaran, the brightest star of Taurus the bull, during the conjunction.
During the conjunction, both the moon and Mercury will have a right ascension of 04h30m00s. The moon will have a declination of +24°56' while the solar system's smallest planet will have a declination of +20°38'. Mercury, also the closest planet to the sun, will have a magnitude of -0.8 during the conjunction, while the moon will have a magnitude of -8.3. The minus prefix before both objects indicates a particularly bright object over Earth.
During the conjunction, the moon and Mercury will be too widely separated to be viewed together with a telescope. The conjunction will, however, be visible with binoculars or even with the naked eye. Though the moon dominates the sky over Earth in comparison to Mercury, the tiny planet is actually larger than Earth's main natural satellite, but not by much! While the moon has a diameter of around 2,200 miles , the tiny planet is approximately 3,000 miles wide.
Classed as a supergiant star, Aldebaran is obviously much larger than both bodies, with a diameter of around 38 million miles . This tremendous size means this star not only dwarfs both the moon and Mercury but it is also around 44 times larger than the sun. . That means while it would take around 63 million moons to fill the volume of the sun, it would take an incredible 5.
Despite this, the incredible surface area of Aldebaran means that it is far brighter than the sun, with a luminosity 400 times greater than that of our star. That means that even at a distance of around 65 light-years fromIf you are hoping to catch a look at the conjunction between the moon and Mercury or the star Aldebaran, our guides to the
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