Where is Saturn tonight?
Saturn is in the evening sky, in the constellation Cetus. Look for it after sunset.
- Brightness
- an obvious bright pointmagnitude 0.4
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 1291 million kmits light left 72 minutes ago
- Opposition
- 18 October 2027
How to recognise Saturn
The ringed planet. To the eye Saturn is a calm, pale-gold point, about as bright as the brighter stars. Saturn is less showy than Jupiter, so use its steadiness: it's the bright “star” that refuses to twinkle. Any small telescope at 30× will show the rings.
Saturn takes 29 years to circle the sky, so it spends about two and a half years in each constellation of the zodiac. Opposition is the night Saturn sits opposite the Sun in our sky: it rises at sunset, stays up all night and is at its closest and brightest.