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 5 Jul 2025

The sky on 5 July 2025
Sunrise
05:43
Sunset
20:06
Twilight ends
21:50
Twilight begins
03:59


Waxing Gibbous

82%

10 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 07:50 14:43 21:35
Venus 03:00 09:53 16:46
Moon 15:58 21:02 02:00
Mars 10:17 16:43 23:09
Jupiter 05:09 12:20 19:30
Saturn 00:07 06:06 12:05
All times shown in PDT.

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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