Better picture of the #GreatConjunction, from last night, Dec 20, 2020. I turned down the exposure so you can see Saturn's rings.
@nindokag these look great! it really looks like the moon one was taken from space
@nindokag Nice! 🙂
Sadly, it's mostly cloudy in the evening in my area at the moment.
@aetios This is really cool! What kind of camera/settings do you use to capture it and how do you process it in software to reveal the dim stuff? I heard I need to have my camera save as "RAW" instead of "JPG", is that right? I haven't figured out how to do that on my android phone yet...
@aetios Thank you for identifying it!
@nindokag Cool!!! I still have fond memories of the time you brought your telescope to Arcata and I got to see the moon. And also got up at 6 or something to see Saturn. Worth it!
With the exposure turned back up, you can see the 4 Galilean moons of Jupiter and a 5th moon that I think might actually be Saturn's moon Titan?
A fun fact: Jupiter is about 800 million km away right now. Saturn is another 800 million km farther away than that. They look close from our vantage point but they are not close.
#GreatConjunction