[Leica] Jupiter Saturn Conjunction Christmas Star

[Howard Ritter]

Aram—

That’s a nice scene-setting tableau. I didn’t have such a nice foreground, so I concentrated on the telescopic view.

We had weather that was much better than forecast on the evening of Monday 21 December, and I was able to get several images of Jupiter + Saturn in between giving looks though the eyepiece to all and sundry who wandered by (masks on). Nikon D850A, 6” f/7 apo astronomical telescope plus Barlow lens, a tele-extender for a telescope, giving an EFL of 2200 mm. Here <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Nikon+Astro/Jupiter-Saturn.jpg.html> is the best of the bunch, to go along with my image of the same tableau from three nights earlier.

In addition to the two planets, Jupiter’s four Galilean satellites are seen nicely spread out along Jupiter’s equatorial plane, and a field star looking like a fifth satellite is at the top left. The scene is tilted because the path of the planets, the ecliptic, is angled from the ‘horizontal’ in any case, more so the nearer to the horizon. I left it that way because I think it looks better than horizontal.

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Nikon+Astro/Jupiter-Saturn.jpg.html <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Nikon+Astro/Jupiter-Saturn.jpg.html>

—howard



> On Dec23, 2020, at 0059, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> Well, I gave it a try tonight.  Missed it last night due to clouds.  Didn't do that well tonight since just before I was ready our washing machine self destructed so had to rush.  I might try again tomorrow night.  Anybody else have any success?
> 
> Christmas Star Jupiter Saturn-6311 (leica-users.org) <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/m/Christmas+Star+Jupiter+Saturn-6311.jpg.html>
> 
> Nikon D750, Nikon 70-200/4 at 4.5, ISO 1250, 200mm, 2.0 sec.
> 
> Comments welcome
> 
> Aram
> 
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