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LAST CHANCE TO SEE TITAN'S SHADOW
Time is running out to witness a rare spectacle on Saturn. Since May, amateur astronomers have been spotting the shadow of TitanSaturn's strangely Earthlike moonas it glides across the ringed planet’s cloudtops.
"I am very happy to have recorded this very RARE event on Aug. 3rd," says Philip Smith of Manorville, NY.
The next opportunity comes on Aug. 19th, and it will be one of the final transits of the series. After the season ends in October, observers will have to wait until the 2040s for another chance.
Shadow transits like these occur only during Saturn's equinoxes, when sunlight strikes the planet’s rings and moons edge-on. Among Saturn's menagerie of 274 known satellites, Titan’s shadow stands out as immense, jet black, and visible even in modest backyard telescopes.
Gregory Shanos of Longboat Key, FL, has photographed six transits in the current cycle
"Note how the shadow begins just above the rings in May and gets higher on the disk with each successive transit," he says. The Aug. 19th transit will be the highest yet, with a visibly elongated disk stretching toward Saturn's pole.
Every transit lasts hours. Titan’s shadow marches slowly across Saturn’s globe rather than flashing by in an instant, giving observers plenty of time to experiment with photo settings and soak in the view through the eyepiece.
The Aug. 19th event begins at 05:52 UT (01:52 am EDT) and ends about four hours later. Saturn will be high in the southern sky, shining at magnitude +0.6 in the constellation Pisces: sky map.
Enjoy the show–it won’t be back for nearly two decades.
https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=18&month=08&year=2025
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