Sunday, April 28, 2013

Saturn to be Visible to the Naked Eye this Sunday



NEW DELHI: Planet Saturn, regarded as the " Lord of the Rings", will be obvious at its brightest today in the sky, as it positions itself straight inverse the Sun.

Saturn will be at its "resistance" today at 13:58 IST, SPACE head CB Devgun stated.

An article is stated to be at restriction, when the Sun is on one side of the Earth and the item is straight on the inverse side. The outcome is that the article is completely lit up by the Sun and seems circle like, he stated.

Astro aficionados can see the planet and its rings by putting their telescopes confronting towards east and find it a hour after the nightfall.

The keep going resistance happened on April 15, 2012, and the following one will happen on May 10, 2014. It will sparkle at an extent of 0.1 mag, Devgun stated.

Because of its positioning, the planet will additionally be the closest it can get to Earth in year 2013, N Raghunandan Kumar of Planetary Society of India stated.

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