Jupiter & Saturn -Next December....date for diary!

[Star101]

I was reading this months (Jan 2020) Astronomy Now magazine, page 42. Mentions Jupiter and Saturn being just 6 arc mins apart.  Very low in the sky for me though.

I did some work of CdC and was really surprised at how close these two planets will appear.  Pluto is not too far away either!

Anyway, posted here for reference

 

 

Its cloudy here...

 

[Paul M]

That's some conjunction! Just unfortunate circumstances. Very low in the sunset

It'll still be worth dragging a scope up to the sea front if it's clear.

How seasonal would it have been had the conjunction been higher up and in the east  Such a conjunction is among the contenders for the origins of the "Christmas Star". 

[vlaiv]

Stellarium shows very nice iridium flare from my location as a mark to start observing

and it indeed looks lovely in my new Mak102 with ES62 5.5mm

[Space Hopper]

I'm really looking forward to observing these two this summer.

And Mars joins the party as well !!

[Paul M]

5 minutes ago, vlaiv said:

and it indeed looks lovely in my new Mak102 with ES62 5.5mm

I have my Mak 127 earmarked for this project already. It's its destiny

[Les Ewan]

25 minutes ago, Paul M said:

That's some conjunction! Just unfortunate circumstances. Very low in the sunset

It'll still be worth dragging a scope up to the sea front if it's clear.

How seasonal would it have been had the conjunction been higher up and in the east  Such a conjunction is among the contenders for the origins of the "Christmas Star". 

I remember a close conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn around Christmas 1980 in Leo but the closest approach was in mid January 1981.It was no way near a close as this next one however.

[Barry-W-Fenner]

This is going to be amazing. Had some stunning views of Big Jupiter and Saturn in September and look forward to improving on them when they come round together again.

 

Baz

[Pete Presland]

I was also looking at this on Stellarium, fingers crossed for some clear skies.