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Watched it last night but will be out again in an hour to see the full conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. if you hve a telescope you will see the rings of Saturn. Next time this will occur is 2080 if you want to wait.
My 200mm telephoto lens on a DSLR doesn't quite resolve the rings. But I got a good shot just from my backyard. Notably, the sun was still above the horizon.
Not wanting to sound all mushy, but I was thinking 2020 has been the worst, but here we all are, humanity, on the Winter Solstice looking up at the Christmas Star. I know it's just two planets in conjunction, but still, makes ya kind of wonder a bit.
I just saw it. It's cold out there! I'm not one of these people can see these things in the sky that everyone else can see but there's a half moon and to its left is a big orange "star."
The big bright orange-yellow object is Mars. I swear it looks larger this year.
Jupiter and Saturn were on the right side. Jupiter looked white, as usual.
From here, clear sky allowed seeing all of these, but the still-fairly-bright western sky at 5:30 pm did not make for dramatic viewing. No telescope but could see them with naked eye—Saturn was a mere pinpoint near Jupiter.
Tomorrow I’ll look later, around 6 pm. I don’t know if Jupiter and Saturn will have gone below the horizon then.
This is the Retirement forum. We may not be here in "another 20 years".
PS: I was able to see it also, clear skies here in Houston. It was an incredible sight. It got me thinking what people thought thousands of years ago, when the stars were all they had at night. And all of a sudden, there was one so much brighter than all the others.
Yes, this was a good year for it. I have an inexpensive telescope that was in Dad's storage unit after we cleared it out when he went into LTC. Probably a gift from one of the couples in our family married to an in-law who felt that you just HAVE to get Mom and Dad a gift at Christmas. (I love my BIL and my 3 SILs but Mom and Dad never wanted gifts and were doing just fine on their own.)
It was a mild night (I'm in the Kansas City area) and the telescope helped but it was still blurry. Some of the blur may have been the moons around Jupiter. Local friends with a better telescope took a picture showing them clearly.
Now I have to e-mail my brother with the Celestron and ask if he was able to see it!
With 7X binoculars Jupiter came in looking very disc-like; Saturn not so much. Unfortunately I am not able to hold even 7X binos still enough to have a real solid view. Someday I'm going to get something like 15X and a tripod. But I bought the 7X binos for bird watching where they are great.
Sky was clear. But I'm in the city so viewing was cut short by rooflines.
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