Saturn ring plane crossing

Dominic Ford, Editor
From the Outer Planets feed


Objects: Saturn

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 23h37m50s 4°29'S Aquarius 16.6"
Sun 03h53m 20°15'N Taurus 31'36"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 2 Mar 2026

The sky on 2 March 2026
Sunrise
06:17
Sunset
17:48
Twilight ends
19:12
Twilight begins
04:54


Waxing Gibbous

99%

13 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 06:28 12:29 18:30
Venus 06:59 12:53 18:48
Moon 17:22 23:55 06:18
Mars 05:50 11:19 16:47
Jupiter 13:03 20:12 03:22
Saturn 07:19 13:18 19:17
All times shown in PST.

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

© NASA/Cassini

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