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 23h37m50s 4°29'S Aquarius 15.7"
Sun 00h29m 3°09'N Pisces 32'03"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 23 Apr 2025

The sky on 23 April 2025
Sunrise
06:02
Sunset
19:43
Twilight ends
21:26
Twilight begins
04:20


Waning Crescent

22%

25 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 05:12 11:15 17:18
Venus 04:25 10:31 16:37
Moon 03:57 09:16 14:45
Mars 11:41 19:06 02:30
Jupiter 08:33 16:02 23:31
Saturn 04:47 10:39 16:31
All times shown in EDT.

Warning

Never attempt to point a pair of binoculars or a telescope at an object close to the Sun. Doing so may result in immediate and permanent blindness.

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

© NASA/Cassini

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