Try your hand at making a daytime observation, but make sure to do so with care.
During the close encounter, both objects will have right ascensions of 22h32m50s. Meanwhile, the moon will have a declination of -13°59'. while Saturn will have a declination of -10°42' during the conjunction. The moon will have a magnitude of -11.7, with the minus prefix indicating a particularly bright object in the sky, while Saturn will have a magnitude of 0.8, making it somewhat more difficult to view.
Meanwhile, the moon is just around 239,000 miles from our planet. This proximity to Earth means that while the moon will have an angular size of around 32'11"8 during the conjunction, Saturn, despite being much larger, will have an angular size of just 16"6. To get a picture of just how much larger Saturn is than the moon, picture this: It would take 9 Earths to ring the equator of the gas giant, while it would take 36 moons to make a belt for Saturn.
These size differences become even more intimidating when considering volume; it would take over 700 Earths to fill the volume of Saturn, while it would take 50 moons to fill the volume of the Earth. That means it would take at least 35,000 moons to fill the volume of the gas giant. If you are hoping to catch a look at the moon or Saturn during this lunar conjunction, our guides to the
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