What time is Saturn rising at the moment?

[Ben478]

Sorry for the basic question peeps but what sort of time is Saturn rising (in the UK) at the moment please? I'm keen to see it soon for my first time....

[johninderby]

Saturn rises at 21:35 pm tonight and best time to look at it would be about 3:30 tomorrow morning.

John

[Ben478]

Oh that's great thank you. I heard a time of around 11pm to midnight so I was thinking it may be two or three hours after to be higher in the sky? But rising at 21:35 I guess around midnight it should be easily visible? Why 3:30 though??

[johninderby]

Saturn should be at it's highest about 3:30am so that's usually when it would look it's best, but by Midnight it should be high enough to get a good look.

John

[mike.brightmore]

I was getting a good view of Saturn (and 5 of its moons) at 11.30 p.m. last night. It was still a bit low, the later you leave it the better.