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Jupiter & Saturn Conjunction (12-22-20), Mark Killion

Jupiter & Saturn Conjunction (12-22-20)

Jupiter & Saturn Conjunction (12-22-20), Mark Killion

Jupiter & Saturn Conjunction (12-22-20)

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The nights of 12/20/20 through 12/22/20 were not the greatest for imaging planets. You are seeing here a stack of 14 single images (ISO 100 for 1/20 second) taken with a Takahashi Mewlon 250CRS and a 1.5x extender and a Canon Ra camera. This is my first attempt at stacking of this subject and I may have some additional images that I can use in the stack. I overexposed one to show the moons around Jupiter and the Titan moon of Saturn and brought these into the stack. I tried a ZWO camera with Sharpcap and had no luck at all on the night of 12/21/20 due winds in the 50 and 60 mph range. The resulting stacked image was cropped about 50%.

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Description: I found that I had several images in the range of 1/15 second and 1/10 second exposures so I stacked all of them to get a better image of Saturn. Of course, these images over-exposed Jupiter so nothing could be done to enhance it. Also, I did get Saturn's moon Rhea to show up.

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Jupiter & Saturn Conjunction (12-22-20), Mark Killion