Science Made Fun

Have you ever wanted to be able to find a planet in the night sky but don’t want to have to learn all the constellations or get all tied up with star maps? Luckily, this month you don’t need to, The Moon more than helps you out. This Sunday (31st May 2009) the Moon finds itself a close neighbour of the planet Saturn.

This screen grab from Stellarium shows you just where to find it.

Take the slightly more than half moon and move up and to the right. The first really bright object you come to will be Saturn, easy as that. One handy tip to make sure you’ve found yourself a planet; it won’t twinkle. Click here to find out why.

With this weekend’s predicted lovely weather hopefully we can all get a glimpse of the sixth planet from the Sun. Spread the word and let’s see how many people we can get to see Saturn’s for themselves for the first time. Link to this page in your blogs, Facebook pages and Twitter accounts. Join the Facebook event here, or follow the Twitter hashtag #seesaturn

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