{"id":533940,"date":"2026-07-05T08:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533940\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:51:08","slug":"the-sky-today-on-sunday-july-5-capture-a-view-of-saturns-moons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/533940\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sky Today on\u00a0Sunday, July 5: Capture a view of Saturn\u2019s moons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tBack to Article List\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSeveral of Saturn\u2019s moons are on view this morning, including its brightest satellite, Titan, along with Dione, Tethys, Rhea, and Iapetus.\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1481\" height=\"888\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783241468_263_saturn-moons-07052026-2.png\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Diagram showing Saturn and four of its moons on July 5, 2026, at 3 a.m. CDT. Saturn appears at center-left with its rings clearly visible. Tethys is just above and to Saturn's left; Dione is farther to the left; Titan \u2014 the brightest and largest \u2014 appears above and to Saturn's right with a golden hue; Rhea is to the right; and Iapetus is far to the right edge of the frame. A scale bar indicating 1 arcminute is shown at the bottom.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tTitan stands close to Saturn the morning of July 5; you may also spot several of the planet\u2019s other moons, depending on the time. Credit: Stellarium\/Oleg Pluton\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Looking for a sky event this week? Check out our full\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/observing\/the-sky-this-week-from-july-3-to-10-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sky This Week<\/a>\u00a0column.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">July 4: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomy.com\/observing\/the-sky-today-saturday-july-4-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A conjunction of Mars and Uranus<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Saturn\u2019s largest and brightest moon, Titan, lies close to its parent planet today. You can spot it \u2014 along with several of Saturn\u2019s other moons \u2014 with a telescope in the early-morning sky.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Try between about 3 A.M. local daylight time and sunrise, when Saturn is more than 20\u00b0 above the horizon. You\u2019ll find the ringed planet in the east around 3 A.M. and in southeast after 4 A.M. Glowing at magnitude 0.7, it\u2019s the brightest light in this region of the sky. Through a telescope, Saturn\u2019s disk stretches some 18\u201d, with rings that span roughly 40\u201d from end to end. Titan, which glows at mid-8th-magnitude, is just northwest of the planet. Depending on when you look, you may catch at least three other moons: 10th-magnitude Tethys, Rhea, and Dione.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 3 A.M. CDT, Dione lies east of the planet, in line with the rings. Tethys is just northeast of the disk, above the rings, while Rhea is west of the planet and slightly north of the plane of the rings. Tethys is moving toward the limb and disappears behind it shortly after 4 A.M. CDT.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iapetus, which is now approaching western elongation, shines at roughly 10th magnitude as well. Look for it some 5\u00bd\u2019 from Saturn, far to the planet\u2019s west.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sunrise:\u00a05:37 A.M.<br \/>Sunset:\u00a08:32 P.M.<br \/>Moonrise:\u00a011:41 P.M.<br \/>Moonset:\u00a011:05 A.M.<br \/>Moon Phase:\u00a0Waning gibbous (68%)<br \/>*Times for sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset are given in local time from 40\u00b0 N 90\u00b0 W. The Moon\u2019s illumination is given at 10 P.M. local time from the same location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alison Klesman\u00a0is senior editor of\u00a0Astronomy\u00a0magazine. She holds a Ph.D. in astronomy and has studied a variety of topics, from minor planets to supermassive black holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back to Article List Several of Saturn\u2019s moons are on view this morning, including its brightest satellite, Titan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[61,60,7882,82,44123],"class_list":["post-533940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-observing","tag-science","tag-sky-tonight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}