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 23h40m40s 4°33'S Aquarius 18.9"
Sun 09h22m 15°23'N Leo 31'33"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 29 Jun 2026

The sky on 29 June 2026
Sunrise
05:40
Sunset
20:07
Twilight ends
21:51
Twilight begins
03:56


Waning Gibbous

99%

15 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:13 14:10 21:06
Venus 08:55 15:45 22:36
Moon 19:40 00:21 05:02
Mars 03:14 10:13 17:13
Jupiter 07:25 14:27 21:29
Saturn 01:04 07:15 13:27
All times shown in PDT.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE440 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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