Monday 4th to Sunday 10th August 2025
If you venture outside any night next week, Saturn will be an easy target, shining at a magnitude of around +0.7 and at
If you've brought your telescope out, planet
While your telescope is aiming in that direction, it should be possible to observe some of Saturn's many moons. Unfortunately its famous dust rings are not best-placed at the moment for observing from the Earth.
At the end of the week, we have a Full Moon. The Moon will be visible most of the night as it travels from east to west and the light pollution from it, makes this the worst time possible to go looking for faint deep sky objects.
So instead, why not see if you can experience that "Moon illusion" that I have mentioned before, where as the Moon rises above the horizon, it looks artificially large because your brain plays a trick on you.
On the evening of Thursday 7th, look towards the south east just as it's getting dark, around
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Screenshots courtesy of Stellarium
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