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Speaker 1: Sky Sky Update number twenty seven. The planet Saturn, as
Speaker 1: it reaches opposition gets set for a most amazing observing
Speaker 1: session as the original ring planet Saturn rises in the
Speaker 1: southeast right around the time of sunset. Saturn, the father
Speaker 1: of Jupiter in Roman mythology, was the god of time Cronus,
Speaker 1: and also the god of agriculture. The mighty planet Saturn
Speaker 1: takes twenty nine years to orbit the Sun, and it
Speaker 1: has one eighth the density of our planet Earth, which
Speaker 1: means it could float if an ocean were big enough,
Speaker 1: but it's ninety five times more mass. If you were
Speaker 1: on the surface, which is a gaseous planet itself, you
Speaker 1: would find out that the escape velocity is over twenty
Speaker 1: two miles per second, contrasting that with the Earth's escape
Speaker 1: velocity of about a seven and a half miles per second.
Speaker 1: Its atmosphere is primarily composed of hydrogen, methane, and helium.
Speaker 1: And did you know that the ring system is some
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy thousand miles in diameter, making it
Speaker 1: actually larger than the planet Jupiter if you took a
Speaker 1: look at ring edge to ring edge. Right now, the
Speaker 1: northern hemisphere of Saturn is facing the Earth. But in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five we'll find out that the ring system
Speaker 1: will seemingly disappear from our view as the Earth moves
Speaker 1: through the ring plane, and we then get to see
Speaker 1: the southern hemisphere of Saturn for a whole new opposition
Speaker 1: and apparition. Also, the ring system is quite thin. Also,
Speaker 1: the ring system of Saturn is approximately a few hundred
Speaker 1: meters that is in diameter. That makes it a most
Speaker 1: amazing situation in space. What are the rings comprised of?
Speaker 1: Really billions of particles of small rocks and maybe as
Speaker 1: small as gravel, and all the way up to the
Speaker 1: size of maybe an suv or even larger. But take
Speaker 1: advantage of this opposition of Saturn, as Saturn will rise
Speaker 1: when the sun sets on August the twenty seventh. You
Speaker 1: see the sun setting just look to the southeastern sky.
Speaker 1: Saturn an easy object to see what the naked eye,
Speaker 1: it's easy to see some eight hundred and fourteen million
Speaker 1: miles away. So simply if you could jump on a
Speaker 1: light bam, it would still take you an incredible seventy
Speaker 1: three minutes to get from the Earth to the planet Saturn.
Speaker 1: Did you know that Saturn now has the most moons
Speaker 1: or satellites in the Solar System. There's some debate as
Speaker 1: the exact number. Some say eighty three moons, but astronomers
Speaker 1: some also say one hundred and forty six moons, with
Speaker 1: actual calculated orbits but not all the moons happening. If
Speaker 1: you're looking at a telescope under low power, the Ring
Speaker 1: System will be tilted toward the Earth by some eight
Speaker 1: point one degrees, and as I mentioned before, over the
Speaker 1: next year or two, it will be edge on like
Speaker 1: a knife blade. Seeing that edge on in a telescope.
Speaker 1: The diameter for our more advanced observers out there is
Speaker 1: some nineteen seconds of art that is the ball of
Speaker 1: the planet. But if you take the diameter of the
Speaker 1: Ring System, it moves up to some forty four point
Speaker 1: two seconds of art, rivaling that of the planet Jupiter,
Speaker 1: which we'll be talking about in months to come. So
Speaker 1: simply for basic observers out there, we welcome you to
Speaker 1: the Doctor Sky experience too. A naked eye view of
Speaker 1: the original ring planet is easy to see as it
Speaker 1: rises in the southeast sky at sunset opposition, when it's
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty degrees away from the sun, just
Speaker 1: like that of a full moon. Occurs during the early
Speaker 1: morning hours of August the twenty seven, exactly four am
Speaker 1: eastern daylight time. Well, what I do if I'm a
Speaker 1: beginning observer, maybe a pair of binoculars would help. You
Speaker 1: won't see the ring system. You need a telescope to
Speaker 1: do that. But once you observe Saturn in a telescope,
Speaker 1: trust me on this, it will be almost a life
Speaker 1: changing experience. Not to be too dramatic, it's that impressive.
Speaker 1: When you see it and show that to friends and neighbors,
Speaker 1: it almost looks surreal. Saturn's rings sadly will disappear in
Speaker 1: a few million years because of rotational instability. Nothing even
Speaker 1: in the universe last forever. And now on to a
Speaker 1: more personal series of events that you can partake in.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned in our previous Doctor Sky updates here
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Speaker 1: here's a special event. As we mentioned before, there'll be
Speaker 1: a second full moon in the month of August, sometimes
Speaker 1: referred to as a blue moon. But did you know
Speaker 1: that this particular full moon will be the closest full
Speaker 1: moon of all of twenty twenty three. We call that
Speaker 1: a super moon. There'll be some eight percent writer thirteen
Speaker 1: percent larger, and there you go, a most amazing sight.
Speaker 1: So don't miss the beauty of that full super blue
Speaker 1: moon rising of course just after sunset. And then just
Speaker 1: to the upper right, in case you haven't found Saturn
Speaker 1: by a few degrees, that starlike object that sitting there
Speaker 1: is indeed the planet Saturn. And a special shout out
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Speaker 1: A great thing that we can talk about in future
Speaker 1: editions is the upcoming October fourteenth annular eclipse of the Sun,
Speaker 1: visible across much of the nation in the West and southeast,
Speaker 1: and then building up with great energy to the amazing
Speaker 1: great American total solar eclipse that will occur April the
Speaker 1: eighth of twenty twenty four visible across the wide swan
Speaker 1: of the United States. Well, the next time, I'm doctor Sky,
Speaker 1: always reminding you want to keep your eyes to the skies,
Speaker 1: simply trying to earn every day the title of being
Speaker 1: your navigator on the highway to the heavens, clear skies,
Speaker 1: good health, and enjoy Planet Saturn as it moves from
Speaker 1: the center into our skies late August and September twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three,