STAR TRAK for March: Saturn at its brightest for the year

Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 16:29 in Astronomy & Space

Saturn will be opposite the sun in our sky on March 21, when it will be closest to Earth in its orbit. Rising in the east at sunset, appearing highest in the south around midnight and setting in the west at dawn, Saturn will be easily visible almost all night during March as it crosses the southern sky, glowing bright yellow among the stars of the constellation Virgo.

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