The conjunction between the moon and the solar system's second-largest planet will appear in the early morning overnight.
During the conjunction, the moon and Saturn will still be too widely separated to be seen together with a telescope. Skywatchers could spot the conjunction with binoculars. , the conjunction will be visible from New York City at around 6:02 a.m. EDT , just after the moon and Saturn have risen over the horizon. The conjunction will remain visible until around 4:42 p.m. EDT when the moon sets.
While the moon dominates Saturn in the night sky in terms of size, with an angular size of 32'55"7 compared to Saturn's angular size of 15"5 during the conjunction, the situation could hardly be more different out in the actualSaturn is so large, with a diameter of over 72,000 miles , that NASA says it would take nine Earths to ring it at the gas giant's equator. This means that if Earth was as large as a nickel, Saturn would be the size of a volleyball.
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