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 11h37m50s 4°29'N Virgo 16.7"
Sun 14h53m 16°35'S Libra 32'16"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 22 Mar 2026

The sky on 22 March 2026
Sunrise
06:50
Sunset
19:04
Twilight ends
20:28
Twilight begins
05:27


Waxing Crescent

24%

4 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:49 11:30 17:11
Venus 07:43 14:05 20:27
Moon 08:54 16:11 23:37
Mars 06:14 11:59 17:43
Jupiter 12:45 19:54 03:04
Saturn 07:07 13:08 19:10
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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