The sky over the Arab world will witness the conjunction of the waxing gibbous moon with the planet Saturn this evening, as it will separate them by 0.1 degrees towards the horizon in a beautiful sight in the skies over the Arab world.
Engineer Majid Abu Zahra, head of the Astronomical Society in Jeddah, explained that the planet Saturn looks like a medium-bright star to the naked eye, and this is because the apparent distance between the moon and Saturn can be seen together in the field. Is. Binocular view, showing that when observing Saturn through a medium-sized telescope, the planet's rings are tilted at 3.7 degrees relative to us, making them appear much thinner than in previous years.
Abu Zahra revealed that parts of the Eastern Region, the United Arab Emirates, the Sultanate of Oman and the Republic of Yemen will witness a rare phenomenon, as the moon will rotate in front of Saturn in an event called the occultation event. The disappearance of a celestial body by another celestial body passing between it and the observer, the term “occultation” is usually used when the Moon passes in front of a star or planet in the zodiac.
It is noteworthy that the mysteries of bright stars and planets occur several times a year, because the Moon follows approximately the same path in the sky every month, and the cycle of mysteries ends after a few months when the Moon's path in the sky changes. goes.