The Great Conjunction

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Jupiter and Saturn at conjunction

Sat­urn met up with Jupiter tonight, in case you had­n’t heard about it on the news.

It was cloudy here, but only part­ly cloudy, so I decid­ed I’d take a quick run out of town with my cam­era equip­ment, to see if I could get any photos.

I stepped out­side and dis­cov­ered I did­n’t need to go anywhere—it was vis­i­ble from my dri­ve­way. So I set up there, and snapped some pho­tos of Jupiter + Sat­urn in between the clouds.

  • Jupiter and Saturn at conjunction
    Jupiter and Sat­urn at conjunction
  • Jupiter and Sat­urn at con­junc­tion (unprocessed)
Jupiter and Saturn at conjunction
Jupiter and Sat­urn at conjunction

In the box­es, top-left to bot­tom-right, are Cal­lis­to, Io, and Europa. Ganymede is too close to Jupiter for my lens to sep­a­rate it.

The half-moon looked love­ly, too, so I got some of the sun­shine reflect­ed off it, too.

  • The Moon
    The Moon, with Earth­shine visible
  • The Moon
    The Moon
The half-moon, with and with­out Earth­shine visible

All the pho­tos were tak­en with my 55–250mm lens, at 250mm, f/5.6, vary­ing times and ISOs.

Inter­est­ed in prints of my pho­tos? Let me know, and we can work some­thing out.