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[Centaur]

Saturn and its rings are entering our evening skies. The planet passed through its western quadrature (90° from Sun) on 2013 JAN 30. For Chicagoland observers it will rise at 23:58 CST on FEB 08 and about four minutes earlier each succeeding night. My more detailed article and graphics related to this year’s apparition can be found at: www.CurtRenz.com/saturn

Photos and descriptions of Saturn and its rings would be welcome additions to this thread.

[Paulie pchris00]

I finally got a halfway decent look at Saturn tonight. It's been a long time since I've seen it well. It was far from perfect, but given that the sky was turning soupy as it cleared the eastern horizon, it was worth freezing until almost midnight to when it was above the worst of the muck. Got a picture from my cell phone, but I don't know if it's anything worth posting yet.

[patrickm]

The photo was cool, Paulie. I say post.

It's Saturn!

[Paulie pchris00]

Okay, here it is. It's not very good, but keep in mind it's just a cell phone pic, taken in less than ideal conditions. But it is Saturn. And visually, it looked pretty good last night around 11:30.

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