2020 Grand Conjunction
In late December 2020, the planets Jupiter and Saturn appeared to converge into one object in the night sky. This isn’t exactly true - Saturn ‘disappeared’ behind Jupiter when viewed from Earth on that particular day.
I wasn’t able to get a better photo than this one - the planets were low to the horizon so I was seeing them through a much thicker amount to atmosphere with all the associated dust and light scattering turbulence. I also had a lot of trouble focussing the camera lens to get anything remotely sharp. So I’m not happy with this photo - I feel that I could have done a lot better.
At the same time, I am very pleased to have seen Jupiter, four of it’s moons and Saturn with my naked eyes (OK, through a camera and a pair of binoculars) and captured an image of them.
In the image below you can clearly see Jupiter and three moons. Io was too close to Jupiter and disappeared into it.
