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Posted on 11/10/2026 11:24:55 AM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Sometimes Saturn disappears. It doesn't really go away, of course -- it just disappears from our view when Earth's Moon moves in front. Such a Saturnian eclipse, more formally called an occultation, was visible in early 2025 along a small swath of Earth -- from Greenland through central Europe and into northern Africa. The featured image is a digital fusion of three images, the first of just Saturn before it disappeared, and then two more of the Moon with different exposure lengths. The images were taken from Sardinia, Italy, after sunset. The bright dot near Saturn is not a moon of Saturn, but rather the star 85 Aquarii, which is further behind Saturn than Saturn is behind the Moon. The next time the Moon moves in front of Saturn, as visible from some place on Earth, will be in 2031.
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Apart from the Earth, Saturn is the coolest looking planet in the solar system. The first time I ever saw it through a really good telescope (Griffith Park Observatory) I was blown away.
November 8, 2022. A Moon occultation of Uranus during a Lunar eclipse. A very rare set up of 4 Solar System objects. The Sun, the Earth, the Moon and Uranus all on the same line.
No Uranus news?
Good one!
No news, but something interesting does happen in a few days on November 30. A close grouping of the Moon, Jupiter, Mars, and the star Regulus within a ~5° circle. Comparable tight Moon + two-planet + bright-star gatherings happen only a handful of times per century.
Really?! A STAR is further behind Saturn than Saturn is behind the moon? Thank you, Captain Obvious.
Nobody wants to see any pics of Uranus...
Wow.
Cool.
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