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Saturn and Moon Conjunction
Hi, I ventured out last night and at about 1.00 am the clouds separated long enough for me to get a good sight of Saturn which was close to the moon. I also saw a satellite around Saturn and today I tried to look up tables using a formula I got out of a book to say which moon it actually was around Saturn, but the math is way beyond me.
I will be asking someone to show me how to calculate these tables when I join the local astronomy club later this month. I was just wondering if anyone else had observed it last night at about the same time (I am west of Sydney, near Blacktown, Parramatta).
If so you might be able to tell me which moon it was and perhaps I can work backwards with these tables.
To me, Saturn appeared slightly elongated at the sides, as you would expect, it appeared that I was looking underneath and off to the side, this made the bottom (from my perspective) visible, but the top was in shadow. I viewed this with 20x80 binoculars and think it looked fantastic. On a better night, I am sure it will be even better.
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