Merge of multiple frames - Saturn (L) and Jupiter (R) on 25th December 2020. The angular separation is about 25'. Shot with a Canon 450D on a Nexstar 6SE. Equipment courtesy of Eranga Ganegala, The year of 2020 was not a great year in many ways. But it was not without its own silver lines. Back in July 2020, we saw the brightest comet in 23 years, the Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) and further before in June, some parts of the world were able to witness an annular solar eclipse. On December 14th, people in Chile and Argentina were able to view a total solar eclipse, which would be the last total solar eclipse till 2024. The best of the events however, is probably the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. A conjunction is when two or more astronomical bodies get very close to each other from a visible point of view. Given that the stars are in a fixed position (unless you observe for over a period of say, ten to hundred thousand years), this refers to objects that are moving across
An amateur's attempts at astrophotography.