{"id":619050,"date":"2026-10-03T02:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619050\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T02:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T02:50:08","slug":"get-ready-to-start-seeing-saturn-more-clearly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619050\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready to start seeing Saturn more clearly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sky-gazers have a chance to spot Saturn!<\/p>\n<p>Saturn will reach opposition \u2014 when it is positioned opposite the Sun from Earth \u2014 on October 4. <\/p>\n<p>Opposition marks the best time to view Saturn, as it will be closest to Earth in orbit, making the planet appear larger and brighter in the sky, according to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/astronomy-essentials\/saturn-at-opposition-closest-brightest-best\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EarthSky<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Neptune will also seem close to the moon, but the faint gas giant is much harder to see without binoculars or a telescope \u2014 and clear, dark skies, according to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/solar-system\/skywatching\/whats-up-september-2026-skywatching-tips-from-nasa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sky-gazers have a chance to spot Saturn! Saturn will reach opposition \u2014 when it is positioned opposite the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-619050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}