Saturn's rings will appear edge-on as viewed from the Earth.
The position of Saturn at the moment the Earth passes through its ring plane will be:
| Object | Right Ascension | Declination | Constellation | Angular Size |
| Saturn | 11h39m20s | 4°31'N | Virgo | 16.5" |
| Sun | 08h11m | 19°59'N | Cancer | 31'29" |
The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.
The sky on 16 Aug 2024
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87% 12 days old |
All times shown in EDT.
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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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Image credit
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