Unfortunately, the light of the full moon could make spotting Saturn difficult.
During the conjunction, the moon will have a magnitude of -12.8, with the minus prefix indicating a particularly bright object over, while Saturn will be dimmer having a magnitude of 0.4. The moon will dominate Saturn in terms of apparent size in the night sky, but of course, this is an effect of the moon's proximity to Earth in comparison to Saturn, which is the sixth planet from the sun .
In terms of actual size, the moon is much smaller than Saturn, meaning if the two celestial bodies were at equal distances from Earth, the gas giant would easily rule the night sky over Earth instead of the moon. The moon has a diameter of around 2,200 miles , about a quarter of the diameter of our planet, while Saturn has a diameter of around 72,300 miles , which is around 9.5 times wider than Earth. Thus, it would take at least 34 bodies the size of our moons to fully loop around the equator of Saturn.The sheer scale of the gas giant becomes even more intimidating when considering its volume.
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