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Space Forum / Astronomy / July 2004Saturn tonight?
In the western horizon around 8pm Arizona time, I thought I saw rings around a planet with my naked eye. Was this Saturn or Jupiter with an optical illusion? -Tom > In the western horizon around 8pm Arizona time, I thought I saw rings > around a planet with my naked eye. Was this Saturn or Jupiter with > an optical illusion? It certainly wasn't Saturn, which set at 56:20 p.m. Arizona time (well before the sun). Jupiter was very low in the west at 8:00 p.m. and set at 9:30 p.m. In any event it is not possible to the rings of Saturn naked eye. If it was low in the sky it was most likely Jupiter with an optical illusion, perhaps ice crystals in the upper atmosphere, which also make rings around the moon and the sun. > In the western horizon around 8pm Arizona time, I thought I saw rings > around a planet with my naked eye. then it could not have been saturn: you can't see its rings with naked eyes. It probalby was an optical illusion. |
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