Topic

Saturn

The ringed planet season by season: rise times, magnitude, apparent diameter, the tilt of the rings, and the oppositions worth planning a night around.

Saturn Returns to the Evening Sky, Its Rings Reopened to 8.9 Degrees

Tonight it rises at 22:44, and it will gain twenty minutes every week. More to the point, its rings are open again: edge-on and all but gone in March 2025, they now stand at 8.9 degrees. Here is the season's timetable up to the 4 October opposition, and what instrument it takes.

Série d'images de Saturne prises par le télescope spatial Hubble entre 1996 et 2000, montrant l'ouverture progressive des anneaux au fil de l'orbite de 29 ans de la planète.