"The further north you are the longer they are in the sky," Dr Musgrave says. "That will look particularly spectacular both to the unaided eye as well as binoculars and telescopes," Dr Musgrave says.Ĭool fact: If you hold your left fist out at arm's length and cover the Moon with the knuckle of your index finger, not only will you hide Jupiter and Saturn you'll block out nearly 80 per cent of all the known moons in our solar system, (as well as Pluto, which will be under your little finger but too small to see).īy December 21, Jupiter and Saturn will appear in the evening twilight about half an hour after sunset, but they will only be visible for an hour before disappearing below the western horizon. On December 17, the planets - now just a finger-width apart - will put on a pretty show with the crescent Moon, says amateur astronomer Ian Musgrave.
"They are a little bit higher in the sky and if people are in towns with streetlights you've got just a little bit more chance to see them before they get too low."Īs the weeks progress, Saturn edges closer to Jupiter, but both planets move closer towards the western horizon and sunset gets later. "I think they'll actually look at their best just from the naked-eye perspective in the first week of December," Mr Wesley says.
Jupiter and Saturn on December 21 from Sydney at 8:30PM (AEDT) / Jupiter and Saturn on Decemat 8:30pm (AEDT)Īstrophotographer Anthony Wesley has been watching the two planets from his property in Rubyvale, central Queensland.
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