Observation by Richard Miles: Great Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction of 2020

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Richard Miles

Observer

Richard Miles

Observed

2020 Dec 20 - 17:16

Uploaded

2020 Dec 21 - 19:56

Objects

Jupiter
Saturn
1331 Solvejg

Equipment

0.35-m f/7.8 Schmidt-Cassegrain + Sloan r' filter

Exposure

Stacks of 40x10s, 40x5s, 60x0.02s

Location

Golden Hill Observatory (J77), Stourton Caundle, Dorset UK

Target name

Jupiter and Saturn

Title

Great Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction of 2020

About this image

Conjunction imaged when 8.8 degrees altitude after the sky cleared for a short while.

A rain shower came through sometime later with a sprinkling of teh wet stuff on the corrector plate!

Files associated with this observation

Jupiter-Saturn_20201220_1717_RMiles.jpg (674.8 kB)

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