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 23h41m30s 4°34'S Aquarius 19.3"
Sun 10h37m 8°42'N Leo 31'41"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 4 Apr 2025

The sky on 4 April 2025
Sunrise
06:19
Sunset
19:13
Twilight ends
20:51
Twilight begins
04:41


Waxing Gibbous

55%

6 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:38 11:38 17:39
Venus 05:06 11:25 17:44
Moon 10:39 18:50 02:54
Mars 11:59 19:37 03:16
Jupiter 09:18 16:50 00:23
Saturn 05:46 11:34 17:23
All times shown in EDT.

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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