On December 22, 2020, the clouds finally parted enough for a view of the great planetary conjunction. The day before the pair would have appeared even closer together. In reality, Jupiter and Saturn were about 450 million miles apart. The four largest Galilean moons of Jupiter (top L to bottom R); Europa, Callisto, Io and Ganymede are visible. Saturn's moons were too dim and too small to resolve properly. Canon 5D3 DSLR with Canon 400mm L 5.6 plus a Canon 1.4x TC was used to get this image. 1/15 sec., F8.0 at ISO 2000. Saturn_Jupiter_Conjunction_big.jpg
Comet Neowise on July 22nd, 2020. DW5D0809_1.JPG
September 5, 2020's Moon and Mars were very "near" each other in the sky. October 2nd will see another conjunction similar to this one. DW5D0907_1.JPG
