In all the links above, though, Saturn is described as an EVENING 'star', rising in the east and directly overhead by around midnight. I haven't yet found information about where it is at dawn ... I'll keep trying.

The fact that Saturn is currently the closest it's been to the Earth in 30 years, and that it is tilted so that it's rings are visible to our line of sight ( which would explain the luminous 'aura' effect around the bright 'core' of the object) still keeps it neck and neck with Venus in my 'guessimation'!

Then again, the Lord of the Rings and Lady Love have probably been neck and neck for a very long time hee hee!!

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