And finally... (Jupiter and Saturn)

[At dusk]

After over a month of rain, clouds and wind,  I've been lucky because I've been able to enjoy the most beatiful conjunction since I took up this hobby almost 40 years ago. Visually it has been and amazing show. Both plantets dancing really close and surrounded by a beautiful retinue of  moons. I don´t think anyone has been able to capture all this beauty in a single picture. This is what I`ve got. Zenisthar 73 + powermate 2.5x + asi120mm

Regards

Edited December 21, 2020 by At dusk

[Nik271]

Great image - one of the best I've seen of this event. Well done! Here in the UK we are clouded over (as usual...). Yesterday was so-so, managed 20 mins of mostly visual and a quick photo snapshot, so happy overall. Today Jupiter and Saturn are even closer: 6' today vs 9' yesterday. Spectacular!

Edited December 24, 2020 by Nik271
typo corrected

[astrochumak]

WOW, that looks amazing! Will agree with Nik that it's one of the best I've seen today. Glad you managed to capture this, the result is overwhelming! Will also try to see this for myself tomorrow, because, as always, weather have gotten worse right before the conjunction

[Scooot]

That’s a fantastic image.  

[andy fearn]

1 hour ago, At dusk said:

After over a month of rain, clouds and wind,  I've been lucky because I've been able to enjoy the most beatiful conjunction since I took up this hobby almost 40 years ago. Visually it has been and amazing show. Both plantets dancing really close and surrounded by a beautiful retinue of  moons. I don´t think anyone has been able to capture all this beauty in a single picture. This is what I`ve got. Zenisthar 73 + powermate 2.5x + asi120mm

Regards

congratulations, great image.

[Ags]

APOD!

[Jarvo]

Yep. You’ve managed it. Nice one. 

[bomberbaz]

cracking picture mate, very well done. 

[wornish]

Best capture I have seen.

[Pete Presland]

Very nicely captured

[bomberbaz]

On 21/12/2020 at 20:38, At dusk said:

After over a month of rain, clouds and wind,  I've been lucky because I've been able to enjoy the most beatiful conjunction since I took up this hobby almost 40 years ago. Visually it has been and amazing show. Both plantets dancing really close and surrounded by a beautiful retinue of  moons. I don´t think anyone has been able to capture all this beauty in a single picture. This is what I`ve got. Zenisthar 73 + powermate 2.5x + asi120mm

Regards

Were you guiding for this image or not. In fact what were your data capture information if you don't mind me asking. I am having a go on thursday but will be unguided so curious. 

tia

[At dusk]

Hi

I used my Eq6-r only roughly polar aligned. The planets were very low and I had to place the telescope in a place in the garden where I couldn’t see Polaris. No need for autoguiding either. I captured several 60 seconds videos with different gains and exposure times and after selecting the best I processed it in auto stakker, registax and photoshop. Give it a try. It’s not difficult to obtain a beautiful memory.

 

Regards, Rafa

[maw lod qan]

Very nice image!

The viewing and the planets position were very good here in Fla.

 

[Adam1234]

Great image, well done! At least someone managed to capture the conjuction! 

It was wall to wall cloud here in the UK, I was rather (highly) disappointed but can't say I was surprised.