Saturn Shines with Venus and Crescent Moon Tonight: How to See It by Joe Rao, | September 09, 2013 06:09am ET The night sky tonight (Sept. 8) brings stargazers one of the last few good opportunities to glimpse the ringed wonder of our solar system — the planet Saturn — in the evening sky, with the brilliant Venus and a crescent moon joining the celestial show. Saturn has been a fixture in evening sky since early spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Since then, the planet has shined with a steady and sedate yellow-white glow, making it a fairly prominent sight right through spring and much of the summer. But now Saturn is approaching a point where the combination of low altitude and its proximity to the increasingly bright twilight glow is making it increasingly hard to see. But tonight, there will be a good opportunity to readily identify it in the evening twilight sky
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 17:23:52 +0000
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