DEC 2OTH - JUPITER AND SATURN AT PENISTONE HILL - NO DRAMA THIS TIME!

[paulastro]

After breaking my finder and being attacked by dogs yesterday, this evening was happily less stressful 🙂.

Had to spend am hour in the car sheltering from heavy rain, but at 4pm it subsided and I had good views with the 10x50s and the SW 72ED, untill it clouded over again just after 5pm.

Used a Baader zoom and x3 barlow, giving powers of from x52 to x156.  Impressive with having the two in the same view at higher powers- not to mention it being extremely rare.

At 4.55pm the separation was only 9' 22.8".  This is not very much further away than it will be tomorrow at closest approach.  Just as well, as the weather tomorrow is going to be very poor over most of the UK - but I'll be back at Penistone comes what may 🙂.

First pic using phone, second is SkySafari screen grab.