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#jupitersaturnconjunction on Dec 21st at 00:18UT. https://t.co/3RtfDFD1Yw
A combination of several exposures to reveal the moons of both planets. The GRS is visible on Jupiter. Titan is seen to lower right of Saturn. https://t.co/bmteP3UDjN
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It doesn’t get much better than that! Thanks for posting it Graeme!
Jim
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You can tell that he's using a Southern Hemisphere Scope - positioning of Saturn UNDER Jupiter; and the Great Red Spot being in the Upper Band on Jupiter.
What I'm curious about is where he came up with the fifth Jovian Moon...
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Any one of us can produce a Jupiter / Saturn "conjunction" whenever we want using Photoshop or GIMP or even Irfanview. What I want to see is the raw video he captured!
Hi Graeme. This is great work from Damian Peach, but I think that our own forum member astroavani (Avani) could produce equal results with his 14" Edge HD scope. Let's see what shows up on the forum soon. PS. I wish I had one of those telescopes.
Marshall
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Orion 180mm f/15 Maksutov-Cassegrain on CG5-GT Goto mount.
Orion XT12i 12" f/4.9 Dobsonian Intelliscope.
Kamakura 7x35 Binoculars and Celestron SkyMaster 15x70 Binoculars. ZWO ASI 120MC camera.
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JayTee wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:48 am
Any one of us can produce a Jupiter / Saturn "conjunction" whenever we want using Photoshop or GIMP or even Irfanview. What I want to see is the raw video he captured!
This was exposures with a CCD camera. The data is actually available free if you sign up for a month trial on Telescope.Live. I'll warn you that the data is almost 7 GB of 32MB exposures.