Live Stream of the Great Conjunction tonight through 36" scope

[helicon]

I thought I'd post this email I got from the East Bay Astronomical Society. Using the Chabot Observatory's 36" reflector Nellie...

Jupiter and Saturn – The Great Conjunction – December 21, 2020
On-line Viewing Starts at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time

Monday evening (12/21) Chabot Space and Science Center will be hosting a once-in-a-lifetime event, the Great Conjuction of Jupiter and Saturn. Beginning at 5:00 p.m. Chabot Adjunct Astronomer and EAS board member Gerald McKeegan and EAS president Richard Ozer will be manning Chabot's 36" reflecting telescope Nellie, to webcast the sight. We're all keeping our fingers crossed for optimal viewing conditions.

Where to see it and where to find out more...

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Sky and Telescope
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-n ... njunction/

Andrew Kehoe
Eastbay Astronomical Society

[messier 111]

thx for the link .

[Juno16]

Thanks Michael. I’m thinking of going to my daughter’s backyard with my newt. The planets are way into the treec in my backyard.If I don’t make it, I will use the link. Or both!

[Michael131313]

Thanks very much for the link.

[kt4hx]

Thanks Michael. Looks like we will be clouded out in central Virginia. Here is a page with multiple links for folks to try as well.

https://www.space.com/great-conjunction ... n-webcasts

[pakarinen]

Excellent. That'll be Plan "B" if I get clouded out.

[KingNothing13]

Hooray for these, as they are likely the only way I will get to view this.

Darn Clouds!

[pakarinen]

Outstanding, @King!

And sadly accurate...

[yobbo89]

Can you even frame the two planets in a 36" scope..

I guess there location on the planet might produce a closer alighnment view, it's pretty far appart on my end here,2-3 meters fl is about all I could push to fit on the chip.

[Chich]

Thanks for the link. Currently snowing here (were it rarely snows!) and apart from a few minutes here and there we haven't seen the sky in weeks.

Agreeing with Kingnothing13. I'll be out in my yard yelling at the clouds until the vid starts.

[SkyHiker]

Just 15 degrees above the horizon here at dusk, I think I'll go with the live stream... thanks Michael.

[Ylem]

Hooray for these, as they are likely the only way I will get to view this.

Darn Clouds!

That is hilarious

[kt4hx]

Well I did get to see it after all. The clouds in our immediate area cleared out just before dusk. But I was driving over to the dark site house to meet the local telephone cooperative folks who are going to connect us to a fiber internet cable tomorrow morning that was recently installed along the highway running down the valley south of town. Will get us off the DSL (which I am on presently). It is snowing here tonight so no observing anyway.

But anyway, I was able to first pick up Jupiter as I was driving then as the minutes ticked by Saturn was picked up intermittently at about the 1400 position relative to Jupiter. As it kept getting darker Saturn was a steady presence. They were indeed quite close and it was an interesting thing to see, even without optical aid. So that gave me something to think about for part of the 3.5 hour drive.

[helicon]

Great Alan. I had two situations that kept me from observing with a scope 1) a redwood tree blocking the view and 2) high cloudiness. In the live stream there were some intermittent high clouds obstructing the two planets so they would fade in and out. The image quality on the youtube feed wasn't that good (I would have had a better and crisper view through my Z10) but it was somewhat better on the facebook feed.

[kt4hx]

That is a shame you couldn't put a scope on it Michael. I was thinking that I wished I could as I was driving (safely) and watching. Had I stayed home, then I would have brought one out for the short time it was on display.

When I woke up this morning I found we had about 4 to 6 inches of new snow overnight here at the mountain house! But the local telephone techs were here at the appointed time and doing their thing of bringing the fiber connection into the house. Their pickup had a blade on the front, I guess in case they had to plow their way in or out of a location. It is a totally rural county with population of under 2,400 total, so lots of small and narrow roads. We are fortunate that the house is along one of the two main highways that pass through so it was getting plowed overnight. As long as we can get out of our own driveway we are good!