Saturn is reasonably large and amazingly clear in your photo. Much better than the naked eye!

If you play around with the JPL Simulator (is it still online?), you can also find the times when the rings are tipped to maximum. I didn’t want to include a full cycle, simply because of the large number of photos it would have entailed, because I seem to recall wanting the interval between all of them of equal time periods, and quarterly intervals showed the interval resolution I wanted near the alignment.

You’re probably right, your suggestion probably is a better title. There are times when I don’t want to attract particular types of attention, such as inflaming the astrology versus astronomy schism, but which may be a pseudo schism. I do find it curious that astrologers, at least western ones, haven’t paid more attention to this type of phenomenon.

The alignment’s plane passes through the earth within these next few days, about a week I guess. On several occasions I’ve thought of printing the astrology chart here, and over time interpreting it, but lately baking bread has been my free-time compulsion.

While it’s hard to for me to say what my rationale for the title was back when I wrote the post (I don’t specifically recall), it’s possible I wanted the ideas of “saturn” and “alignment” impressed for some reason, perhaps subconsciously relating to synastry, or even harmonics (such as John Addey’s implementation), as types of alignments, though of a different geometric kind versus this ring-plane alignment. Undoubtedly, “astrology versus astronomy” would have been of more generalized interest, and would be sure to attract a wide polarization of views, which perhaps I wanted to avoid.

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ps; I am sure you meant to name this blog astrology versus astronomy, I am curious as to why?

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