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    Saturn reached opposition on August 1st, and Jupiter did so on August 19th. So this month they're at their closest, biggest, and brightest of the year. See "Saturnian Challenges" starting on page 52 of the July Sky & Telescope, also "Action at Jupiter" in the August issue, page 50, and "Dog Days with the Gas Giants" on page 40 of August.
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    FRIDAY, AUGUST 19 For months, most of the naked-eye planets have been hanging out in the early morning sky. Now Saturn becomes the first of the crew to return to evening view as early as late twilight. See below. It shines higher through the rest of the night. Saturn emerges low in the southeast as twilight fades.
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    Aug 30, 2024Jupiter on August 20th, imaged by Christopher Go. South here is up. The darkest piece of the belts runs narrowly to the celestial west ("preceding") from the Red Spot Hollow. Saturn (magnitude +0.6, south of the Circlet of Pisces) is at opposition this week: on the night of September 7th. Look for it glowing in the east-southeast as soon as the ...
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    News Observing Tools. ... Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars span the evening sky. And here comes another weird pattern of Jupiter's moons. By: Alan MacRobert December 20, 2024. This Week's Sky At a Glance ... On the opposite side of the sky, Jupiter and Mars climb up ever earlier. And the waning crescent Moon occults Spica for eastern and ...
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    Aug 11, 2023SATURDAY, AUGUST 19 Saturn climbs well up in the southeast by 10 or 11 p.m. Look below Saturn, by about two fists at arm's length, for Fomalhaut, the Autumn Star already on its way up. ... Jupiter (magnitude -2.5, in Aries) rises around 11 p.m. Watch for it to come up low in the east-northeast. By the beginning of dawn Jupiter shines very ...
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    Aug 16, 2024On Saturday morning August 17th Mars and Jupiter still shine1.4° apart, about a finger's width at arm's length. They passed 0.3° apart on August 14th. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17 As summer progresses and Arcturus moves down the western evening sky, the kite figure of Boötes that sprouts up from Arcturus tilts to the right (depending on your latitude).
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    Aug 25, 2023It's at a fairly good height for telescopic observing by 11 p.m. (by which time Fomalhaut is twinkling two fists below it). Saturn is at its highest in the south around 1 a.m. Watch for the Seeliger Effect to diminish on Saturn's rings this week; see August 26th above. Saturn imaged by Christopher Go on June 17th. South is up.
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    But August also marks the arrival of planetary royalty in the evening sky. You'll find Jupiter and Saturn shining low in the southeast as soon as it starts to get dark after sunset. Jupiter is quite a bit brighter, both because it's the bigger world and because it's a lot closer than Saturn both to the Sun and to Earth. August is also a ...
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    See "Saturnian Challenges" starting on page 52 of the July Sky & Telescope, also "Action at Jupiter" in the August issue, page 50, and "Dog Days with the Gas Giants" on page 40 of August. Jupiter's Great Red Spot side, imaged on August 7th by Christopher Go with a 14-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain scope. This is a stacked-video image, de-rotated ...
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    FRIDAY, AUGUST 12 The Perseid meteor shower should be at its peak late tonight, but the light of the Moon, just a day past full, will compromise the view this year. Only the brightest of the meteors will shine through. The shower always appears most active from 11 or midnight until dawn local time, when your side of Earth faces most directly into the oncoming meteors (i.e., the shower's ...

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