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Austin, Texas, US
06:20 pm
Questar 1280/89mm telescope, Dakin 2x Barlow, Sony a6300 camera.
HDR Composite: Sky (10 sec at ISO 200), Moons (2.5 sec at ISO 200), Saturn best 16 of 120 (1/6 sec at ISO 200), and Jupiter best 16 of 110 (1/13 sec at ISO 200). Stacking in Austostakkert! 3, deconvolution in Lynkeos, HDR composite and final crop and exposure in Photoshop.
The great conjunction 2020, the closest approach of Jupiter and Saturn in nearly 800
years, will peak in 2 days. They are now only 12.25 arc minutes apart. Here top
to bottom: Saturn (Dione, Rhea, Titan) and Jupiter (Callisto, Ganymede, Europa, Io) from Austin,
Texas the evening of 2020-12-19 at 6:20 local time.
