There are so many excellent images of the Saturn Jupiter conjunction that happened around December 20th, 2020 !

For reference, two of my favorites are:

https://www.astrobin.com/vfp26w/

https://www.astrobin.com/vdy5c7/

While my image here is not very good, I wanted to post it anyway to illustrate a few things as a reference to consult in the future.

For context, my equipment was ES ED80 (80mm scope) using a TeleVue 2X Powermate and ZWO ASI1600MC-C. I tried 1x1 bin, 2x2 bin, and various resolutions; I'm quite inexperienced at Planetary work. This result was:

Binning=1

Capture Area=1600x1200

Colour Space=RAW16

Hardware Binning=Off

High Speed Mode=On

Frame Rate Limit=60 fps

Gain=100

Exposure=0.08

White Bal (B)=50

White Bal (R)=50

Brightness=10

Temperature=-10

Cooler Power=10

Target Temperature=-10

Cooler=On

TimeStamp=2020-12-21T00:45:29.4927507Z

That evening, we all only had about 1-hour to make the shot, maybe 1.5hrs. Beyond that, these planets had set too low into the horizon, meaning we had to shoot thru a lot of atmosphere to get a suitable shot.

This shot here was from the evening of the 20th @ ~6:45pm CST. The next evening, the 21st, was their "closest" separation, but that evening ended up cloudy for me -- so I am thankful many others were able to make that shot.

My shot does include Titan, but it is extremely faint.

What I mainly wanted to highlight: the orange vs blue hues (it is most apparent on the Jupiter body, but it is present on the moons and Saturn also). The more orange side is in the direction of the Sun, and the blue side is not. I think I have read about this effect in the past, but forget what the name is (and whether it is an effect from the camera sensor itself, or an actual effect from the hot/cold side of these bodies being observed).

Also: I noticed when I was out-of-focus in one direction, the "orange" side would get stretched out first. Whereas if I went out-of-focus in the other direction, the "blue" side would get stretched out first. When I say "first" I mean that corresponding side, the light would "smear" on that side, before the scene became completely out of focus altogether. It is an effect that I had never noticed before; in this shot, since I had the focused with no smearing on either side, I wonder if it was "perfect focus" for Jupiter (whereas Saturn remains slightly out of focus, but that could be a side effect of my inexperience at processing two planetary bodies in the same scene -- I wanted this to be from a single shot, not a composition).

Before this shot, I had setup "visually" (that is with a diagonal and no digital camera), and I wanted to record: visually (with an 11mm TeleVue lens and 2x PowerMate), the view of both bodies together was far superior -- I could more clearly make out the Saturn rings, and make out one band of Jupiter.