Lunar occultation planner
Check the Moon’s closest approach to a selected planet or bright star on your date at your location, including disc overlap and horizon position.
Closest approach to Venus
- Closest approach
- 18 October 2026 at 00:00 UTC
- Centre separation
- 71.9867°
- Disc overlap
- No
- Moon altitude
- -24.46°
- Contacts
- No limb contacts on this approach
The selected object passes outside the lunar disc on this date. Contact times use circular mean planet discs and the lunar limb. Saturn’s rings extend beyond its disc. An occultation is the Moon covering a more distant object; an appulse is a close approach without covering it.
Bright-star positions and proper motions: HYG Database, CC BY-SA 4.0.