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They are observed with the naked eye on the dome of the sky.
The Jeddah Astronomical Society explained that we observe in the sky of Saudi Arabia and the Arab world before sunrise Wednesday and Thursday “March 10 and 11” the meeting of the moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation Capricorn.
Jeddah Chief Astronomer Engineer Majed Abu Zahra – via the association’s Facebook page – said the conjunction occurs when two or more celestial bodies approach each other in the sky seen from Earth, and that these bodies share the same straight view or ecliptic longitude.
He added that there will be a conjunction between the moon and Saturn on Wednesday morning. Where the 26-day moon will drop by 11% and its illuminated disk by 11%, separated from the planet of the rings, Saturn is at “3” degrees, and the moon’s brightness will be “-10.4”, while that Saturn will be lower “0.6” and will appear in the dawn sky about two hours before sunrise and they will reach a point A higher in the sky above the southeast horizon when the morning light diffuses.
And because the distance between the moon and Saturn is so wide, they won’t be seen together in the same field of view as the telescope, but it can be done with binoculars.
The morning of the next day (Thursday, March 11), a few hours before sunrise, we will notice that the moon has moved away from Saturn towards the east and that the illumination of the pinch has decreased to become 5.4% compared to on the eve and became located near Jupiter and Mercury.
During this pairing, the moon and the planets will be easily observed with the naked eye on the dome of the sky, and when using binoculars, more details can be seen, like the satellites of Jupiter for the big four called the moons of Galileo. .
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