Sky Watchers - Where is Saturn?

Factual Questions
1

I have used my TheSky program and I still can’t find it. I see the Moon and I see Jupiter right near it. I also see Mars in the West. The program says that Saturn should be somewhere in between the Moon and Mars. I don’t see a single bright spot in this area outside. And the ones that are somewhat bright, I look at through the telescope and I see no rings. I know I can see the rings of Saturn on my scope because I can see the moons of Jupiter and other, samller things. So where is Saturn in the sky?!?

2

Saturn isn’t going to be very bright right now, I don’t think. If you can find Orion, draw a line from Rigel through Betelgeuse, and keep going and you’ll find Saturn along that line. It’s near the feet of Gemini.

3

You can see Jupiter’s moons? What kind of scope do you have and what did it cost? My b-day is the 10th and my wife still doesn’t know what to get me. That would be awesome!

4

You can see 4 of Jupiter’s moons with a good pair of 7x50 binoculars.

You probably don’t want to jump into a telescope purchase too quickly. It takes a bit of research to find the right one. I know there was a thread on this not too long ago, you might want to do a search.

5

Thanks drewbert, I’ll try that tomorrow.

duffer, when I say I can see Jupiter’s moons, I just meant Jupiter was a bigger dot and it’s moons could be seen as smaller dots. I found it to be cool, but maybe you want something more?? Anyway, I have an Orion Observer 70mm Equatorial Refractor that cost $130 I think…

6

I can see the moons of Jupiter in binoculars, as long as they are held steady; if Jupiter were not there the moons would be at the limit of naked eye visibility.

as far as Saturn goes it is relatively bright, in my opinion; brighter than Mars at the moment, anyway.

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