Earlier this week, on its monthly trundle around the Earth, our moon passed directly in front of Saturn from the viewpoint of the Southern hemisphere.To wit:
The featured image from Sydney, Australia captured the pair a few minutes before the eclipse. The image was a single shot lasting only 1/500th of a second, later processed to better highlight both the Moon and Saturn. Since Saturn is nearly opposite the Sun, it can be seen nearly the entire night, starting at sunset, toward the south and east. The gibbous Moon was also nearly opposite the Sun, and so also visible nearly the entire night — it will be full tomorrow night. The Moon will occult Saturn again during every lap it makes around the Earth this year.
(Image: Peter Patonai)
Anyone familiar with the wit and wisdom of Donald J. Trump will know that its actually (the moon) a part of Mars.
This story is clearly fake news.
Ah sure don’t the people like a good story rather than the truth anyway.
Am I being really thick here? How can Saturn be nearly opposite the Sun if it revolves around it and the Sun is a spherical object. Surely its always opposite the sun.
It’s opposite the sun from the perspective of us on Earth. Ie we are looking at Saturn with the sun behind us
Star dust people.. that’s all we are..!!
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden….
We are billion year old carbon….
I feel every minute of it some days…
and some minutes weigh heavier
I’m going down to Yasgur’s Farm.