How Do You Locate Saturn and Jupiter with a Medium Powered Telescope?

[tmoan]

hello everybody
can anyone help me find saturn and Jupiter on a given night. i have a medium powered reflective telescope and i have to organize an astronomy night on the 3rd of june
thanks.

 

[yenchin]

hello everybody
can anyone help me find saturn and Jupiter on a given night. i have a medium powered reflective telescope and i have to organize an astronomy night on the 3rd of june
thanks.

http://stellarium.org/

 

[George Jones]

I agree that Stellarium is very useful. Right now, Saturn is in the southwest when it gets dark at night, but Jupiter is in the morning sky. You should also consider other things, for example, the Milky Way with binoculars.

 

[russ_watters]

There's another thread in the forum a few down, asking the same question.