If you are an early riser and have access to a telescope, you may be able to glimpse a view of a giant storm currently raging in Saturn’s Northern hemiphere. The image below shows the size of the storm on Saturn as captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
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According to Sky & Telescope Magazine, the storm was spotted in mid-December by Japanese amateur astronomers and has grown in size ever since. Apparently the last time, a storm almost as bright as this one was seen on Saturn in 1994.
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Not being an early riser, I can’t comment on how easy the storm is to see in an amateur telescope. If you don’t mind getting up early in the morning, you can find information here on where the storm transits (or passes across) the planet Saturn as seen from Earth. Keep in mind that the times given are listed in the U.S. Eastern Time Zone. You will need to add fifteen hours to the times listed to give you a correct time for Eastern Australia (or 16 hours if your state or territory is on ‘Summer time’.).