Saturn and its satellites

Saturn is easy to find now, too: it is high in the southwest at sunset. Look for the head of Leo: Saturn is the other bright object near Regulus. The big challenge with Saturn is trying to find as many of its moons as possible. As the figure below shows, there will be quite a display tonight, with at least 4 bright ones that should be easy to see.

The "mag" column in the table below gives the "magnitude" -- a measure of the brightness -- of each moon. The larger the magnitude value, the fainter the moon. Most people can see tenth-magnitude objects with our telescopes, but some can go fainter. Can you?

How many moons can you see around Saturn? Can your eyes reach magnitude 11? If you can see Mimas, at magnitude 13, you have super-vision!