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makapu
Aug 27, 2006, 12:04 PM
Aloha... I am new to this site and I hope I wiil receive an answer... I am having trouble locating the planet Saturn in our evening Hawaiian sky... I located her in April and I bought a Planet/Star locator I am thinking (smell wood burning)
Saturn is not visible this time of year for us... Thank you if you can help me.:)
RickJ
Aug 27, 2006, 04:02 PM
Here's a sky map showing where Saturn is from Honolulu. Check out their home page for other maps from your area: http://www.fourmilab.ch/yoursky/
Fianchetto
Dec 24, 2006, 06:55 AM
Purchase this month's copies of "Sky and Telescope" or "Astronomy" magazines - they both have diagrams of the location and attitude of al the planets, but also the relative positions of the galilean moons of Jupiter and Saturns moon Titan
normanmcgeoch
Mar 16, 2012, 11:03 PM
Go to whereissaturn.com and have a look, it describes step by step how to find and photograph Saturn in simple language. The main key is to have a good picture of what the night sky should look like and use a couple of stars from a known constellation in your night sky to lead you to where Saturn is. It will look like a slightly yellow star to the naked eye. Try using AstroViewer which is free to get a view of what your night sky should look like and go from there.
Stratmando
Mar 18, 2012, 09:04 AM
I was going to say you need to look past Uranus, but won't.
I have Google Sky on My phone, a Free APP. And it is like looking through a window to the stars, and planets. Right now I see it is on the other side of the Earth in the Constellation Virgo.
Stratmando
Mar 18, 2012, 06:42 PM
Correction,Saturn is closer.