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 23h37m40s 4°29'S Aquarius 16.0"
Sun 02h03m 12°32'N Aries 31'48"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 24 Nov 2024

The sky on 24 November 2024
Sunrise
06:32
Sunset
16:44
Twilight ends
18:12
Twilight begins
05:04


Waning Crescent

29%

23 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 08:11 13:01 17:50
Venus 09:52 14:42 19:32
Moon 00:35 07:00 13:17
Mars 21:04 04:08 11:12
Jupiter 17:37 00:44 07:51
Saturn 12:54 18:33 00:11
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

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