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See Saturn at its biggest and brightest tonight before its rings 'disappear' in 2025 (www.space.com)

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late but nice pictures. my unread email has been hovering around 200 lately. road trip

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

pretty sure this was a planet NW of me a few days ago. not sure which. no twinkling

[–] Cadeillac@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I don't think it was that big, but I'm in the middle of Arkansas so I don't know how it would look from here. I didn't realize twinkling was a phenomena. Pretty cool to learn about. I think the atmosphere bends the light?