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  • Stargazing News - August 4th, 2025

    From CJ@954:100/61 to All on Sunday, August 03, 2025 16:45:49
    Monday August 4, 2025

    Use Saturn to See Neptune (overnight)

    The nights surrounding Monday, August 4 will offer a good opportunity to see the distant planet Neptune by using 640 times brighter Saturn as a guide.
    While the two planets will remain near one another this year, they will draw slightly farther apart with each passing week. Once you have found Saturn's prominent, yellowish dot in the lower part of the southeastern sky in late evening, use strong binoculars to view Neptune as a dull bluish "star"
    situated a finger's width to Saturn's upper left (or 1.1 degrees to its celestial north). A pair of somewhat brighter stars named 4 Ceti and 5 Ceti will twinkle almost as far from Saturn on the opposite side from Neptune. A backyard telescope will provide a clearer view, but it will invert and/or mirror their arrangement.

    (Data courtesy of Starry Night)
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