🪐 Opposition
This event has passed · 13.10.2026
Asteroid 4 Vesta at opposition
Vesta, the brightest asteroid in the sky, is at its best for the year. Ordinary binoculars and a sky chart are enough to hunt down this tiny 'star'.
P. Horálek/ESO
At a glance
- Date
- When to watch
- Around midnight, moonless night
- Where to look
- In the south — use a sky chart, binoculars
- What you need
- Binoculars
- Event type
- Opposition
- Data source
- in-the-sky.org ↗
Date given in Kyiv time.
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