My planet can be spotted Flower And Saturn is close to each other, as it will separate them by only 0.4 degrees, in a wonderful conjunction that is easily seen with the naked eye, towards the southwest in the sky of Egypt and the Arab world, after sunset today, Sunday, January 22, 2023, and moving towards the beginning of the night.
And the Astronomical Society in Jeddah revealed, in a report, that the conjunction occurs when the planets appear close to each other in the sky, and due to the small apparent distance between dim Saturn and bright Venus, they can be seen together in the field of view of binoculars or telescopes, in addition to that, the crescent moon will be a few degrees below these planets. .
that Planets Venus and Saturn They appear in the same spot in the sky, and close to each other, because they are on the same line of sight from Earth, but in fact Venus is 149 million miles away, while Saturn is about a billion miles away.
When observing Venus through the telescope, its disk is 93% illuminated by sunlight at the present time, but due to the movement of the planet in its smaller orbit around the sun, during the coming months and when observing through the telescope, it will be noticed that the apparent size of the planet’s disk is getting larger due to its proximity to the Earth, and this will be matched Decrease in pinch illumination gradually.
Saturn is the second largest planet after Jupiter, its diameter is 9 times larger than the diameter of the Earth, and like Jupiter, Saturn consists of gas, mainly of hydrogen and helium, and it is the sixth planet in terms of distance from the sun, and it is the farthest planet in our solar system that can be seen easily with the naked eye. It can be seen through telescopes.
It is worth noting that this is the beginning of the wonderful evening appearance of Venus, as it will rise high in the sky by late spring as it doubles in brightness.
