• Stargazing News - July 9th, 2025

    From CJ@21:2/156 to All on Tue Jul 8 06:33:20 2025
    Wednesday July 9, 2025

    Saturn Returns to the Evening (overnight)

    On the nights around Wednesday, July 9, the ringed planet Saturn will finally begin to rise before midnight for observers located at mid-northern latitudes
    - making Saturn available for evening viewing again after a long absence. During the wee hours, the bright, creamy-yellow planet will climb the southeastern sky below the Great Square of Pegasus. Due to Earth's motion around the sun, the stars and distant planets rise about 4 minutes earlier
    each day - or about half an hour earlier with each passing week. Saturn will
    be returning just a few weeks before the red dot of Mars disappears into the western twilight. Then Saturn will reign until Jupiter enters the evening sky around mid-October.

    (Data courtesy of Starry Night)
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