This month’s planets

Planet of the month

Saturn 20:00 BST on 15 August

Constellation: Sagittarius

Magnitude: 0.1

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Saturn – known as the ‘Ringed Planet’ because of its system of gorgeous, bright rings – is visible low in the southeast as soon as the sky begins to darken after sunset. You’ll notice immediately how Saturn is much fainter and a warmer, more golden colour than Jupiter, which will be blazing some distance over to its right and slightly higher in the sky, but at magnitude