This is the first time our sky has been clear since the great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on the 21st December and you can see quite clearly how far both planets have now moved apart from one another on the ecliptic.
If you are a lover of the night sky then this was an extremely wonderful event to have witnessed, but to the naked eye for most people I think they were a little disappointed. When I explained how big these planets were and to see them just about on top of one another in our line of sight, then I think they understood that this was quite an awesome astronomical event!
Again I used the house across the road with all its pretty Christmas lights flashing as the foreground for my pictures of this special planetary event so I’ll never forget that it happened at Christmas-time 2020 :-)
The images were taken with a Canon 70D camera and a Tamron 18-400mm lens on a tripod; the first image was an exposure of 2 seconds and ISO200, the second image was zoomed in to 400mm with an exposure of 1 second and ISO 640 and the image is cropped.
If you are a lover of the night sky then this was an extremely wonderful event to have witnessed, but to the naked eye for most people I think they were a little disappointed. When I explained how big these planets were and to see them just about on top of one another in our line of sight, then I think they understood that this was quite an awesome astronomical event!
Again I used the house across the road with all its pretty Christmas lights flashing as the foreground for my pictures of this special planetary event so I’ll never forget that it happened at Christmas-time 2020 :-)
The images were taken with a Canon 70D camera and a Tamron 18-400mm lens on a tripod; the first image was an exposure of 2 seconds and ISO200, the second image was zoomed in to 400mm with an exposure of 1 second and ISO 640 and the image is cropped.
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