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Has to be Mars.
It's the brightest object in that area right now.

Saturn will be a good target in a month or so...

Has to be Mars.
It's the brightest object in that area right now.

Saturn will be a good target in a month or so...

Why so? at the moment im getting good views of it (well, not at the moment, what with the weather! :roll: ). Is it going to get better? brighter?

Saturn will be in opposition next month, i believe.

Feb 24th 2008 Saturn in opposition...magnitude 0.2

I dont understand these magnitude numbers...but from what i read i think it generally says the lower the magnitude the brighter the object?

So really a 0.2 mag saturn should be REALLY bright?

Of course the Cassini will be next to invisible (in small scopes anyway).....but the rings should show up as a different colour to the surface (as they do through my little 3.5 inch scope).

*i'm quite happy with the size of Saturn in my scope thank you very much*.