![]() ![]() Space The 'Best Meteor Shower Of The Year' Is Happening. With a decent, small telescope - a 4-inch reflector, for example - the detail should pop out - including a big gap in the middle of the ring system, known as the Cassini Division (after Italian-born astronomer and mathematician Giovanni Domenico Cassini), says Wayne Schlingman, director of the Arne Slettebak Planetarium at Ohio State University. However, with binoculars or a small telescope - and good seeing - you'll have the best chance all year to catch some really interesting detail.Įven with binoculars, you can get a sense of the rings. ![]() What will you see? With the unaided eye, Saturn will appear somewhat brighter than normal, but "most casual observers won't notice much of a change at all," Sarah Burcher, public program manager at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz., tells NPR. ![]() With binoculars, you should get a sense for Saturn's rings There are some bright spots up in the sky, but they're going to be in the west mostly," Plait adds. "You shouldn't mistake it for anything else. "The brightest 'star' you'll see not far above the horizon is Jupiter, and Saturn is the fainter yellowish object about two fists seen at arm's length to its upper right," Rick Fienberg of the American Astronomical Society writes in an email to NPR. It's the perfect time of year to go outside an hour or so after sunset and look low in the east-southeast for Saturn. Space PHOTOS: Great Conjunction Dazzles Stargazers Around The World ![]()
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