Saturn at Opposition is Amazing!
Every year, as the Earth revolves around the Sun, we pass an imaginary line directly from the Sun to Saturn. The Sun is on one side of us and Saturn is on the other. When two bodies are on opposite sides of the Earth like this we call it opposition. Saturn’s opposition for the year was on May 23rd, and even though it has been a few days, you can still see Saturn up pretty much all night. Along with opposition, we can clearly see the rings, but Saturn does wobble on a 29.5 year cycle, meaning there are times...