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Thomas
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Thomas asked in Science & MathematicsAstronomy & Space · 5 years ago

Dark line across Saturn - real? Or my eyes making things up?

I was just looking at Saturn, through my Skywatcher Heritage 76 with a TMB Planetary 6mm eyepiece giving 50x, and saw pretty clearly a fine dark line across the planet, probably about along its equator. I thought it might be the ring shadows, but I checked and they aren't visible at the moment.

So was this a real feature on Saturn, or my eyes or telescope playing tricks on me? (It's a pretty cheap and small telescope after all.)

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  • kil
    Lv 5
    5 years ago

    Yeah, it's called Saturns massive Ring.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    It's real. That is the shadow of Saturn rings. It was YEARS ago when the the rings were not tilted enough RELATIVE to Earth. but now Saturn IS tilted enough RELATIVE TO EARTH for the rings to cast a shadow on Saturn. The shadow IS REAL, not your imagination. That you were looking at web page posted 5 or 8 or 11 years ago is something you should have checked.

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