Saturn at it’s most visible this Sunday night

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View from the Hubble Telescope: NASA, ESA and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona)

 

Throughout the month of September Saturn will be visible to the naked eye as a bright non-twinkling yellow orange star in the evening sky, reaching its brightest and closest point of  the year this coming Sunday the 21st, in what’s known as opposition. Opposition is when the earth is positioned between a planet and the sun.

You can spot Saturday in the eastern sky after sunset and it’ll be visible all night long. Saturn will be visible to some degree before disappearing in the sunset glare around February of next year. 

Even though Saturn will be bright enough to be seen without any equipment a small telescope will allow observers to see its rings.

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