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Saturn ring plane crossing

Dominic Ford, Editor
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Objects: Saturn
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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 15.9"
Sun 01h26m 9°03'N Pisces 31'54"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 29 Nov 2024

The sky on 29 November 2024
Sunrise
07:30
Sunset
17:07
Twilight ends
18:43
Twilight begins
05:54

28-day old moon
Waning Crescent

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28 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 08:40 13:17 17:53
Venus 10:52 15:26 20:01
Moon 06:07 10:59 15:44
Mars 21:11 04:30 11:50
Jupiter 17:38 01:01 08:24
Saturn 13:19 18:53 00:26
All times shown in EST.

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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