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- Saturn is visible during most of the night, but it is best viewed in the late evening hours after sunset. Uranus is visible during most of the night, but it is best viewed in the early morning hours and until sunrise.
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Saturn is visible during most of the night, but it is best viewed in the late evening hours after sunset. Uranus is visible during most of the night, but it is best viewed in the early morning hours and until sunrise. You may need binoculars.
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When and where to watch in 2024: Around its September 8 opposition, Saturn is rising in the east at sunset and is visible all night. Afterward, for the rest of 2024, Saturn will remain visible in the evening sky. It’ll finally disappear in the sunset glare in February 2025. Date and time of opposition: 5 UTC on September 8, 2024 (12 a.m. CDT). Brig...
Opposition marks the middle of the best time of the year to see an outer planet. Even though you can’t see Saturn’s rings through binoculars, it’ll appear through binoculars as a bright oval-shapeddisk. But any small backyard telescope will show the rings.
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In fact, Saturn comes to opposition nearly every earthly year. A year is the length of time Earth takes to travel once around the sun. But Saturn’s orbit around the sun takes 29.4 Earth years. So each year we have to travel slightly farther in orbit to catch up to, and pass, Saturn again. Thus Saturn oppositions are roughly 378 days apart and Satur...
Saturn is the 6th planet outward from the sun. People in ancient times saw it as a golden “star” that moved among the fixed stars: a wanderer. It wasn’t until astronomers began using telescopes in the 17th century that they saw its rings. Astronomers used to speak of Saturn as having three rings. But spacecraft in the later part of the 20th century...
Bottom line: Saturn’s 2024 opposition comes on September 8, when Earth will sweep between the sun and Saturn, placing the ringed planet opposite the sun in our sky. Saturn will be in an excellent place to observe from late August through early October. Read more: What does opposition mean for an outer planet? Enjoying EarthSky so far? Sign up for o...
- Mercury. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun in our Solar System. Because it is so close to the Sun, it is only observable in the early morning, just before sunrise, or at dusk.
- Venus. After the Moon, Venus is the brightest natural object in the night sky. It is both the Earth’s closest neighbor in our Solar System and the planet most similar to Earth in size, gravity, and composition.
- Mars. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in our Solar System. While it’s not our nearest neighbor (Venus takes that honor), or the brightest planet in the night sky (also Venus), it is perhaps the planet that most inspires our imagination.
- Jupiter. Jupiter is usually the third brightest object in the night sky, after the Moon and Venus (only Mars, our next-door neighbor, is occasionally brighter), and summer is an especially good time to view this bright behemoth.
Planets Visible Tonight – October 2024. In October, we’ve got mixed planetary fortunes. Mercury and Venus are both evening planets but our view of them is blighted by the shallow ecliptic. Saturn is also an evening planet, alongside Neptune, and they both ride high before midnight.
Oct 9, 2024 · Mars will reach opposition on January 16, 2025, at 01:17 GMT (January 15, 20225, at 8:17 p.m. ET). This is the most anticipated planetary opposition of all, as Mars oppositions occur only once in 2–3 years. Other planets that can be in opposition (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) reach it about every year.
Sep 7, 2024 · The planet will officially reach opposition at 12:27 a.m. EDT (0427 GMT) on Sunday, Sept. 8, and then shortly after reach its highest point in the sky at 12:50 a.m. EDT (0450 GMT),...
