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Actual (amateur) images of the incredibly close Jupiter-Saturn conjunction
SpaceWeather.com ^ | Dec 21, 2020

Posted on 12/21/2020 2:25:40 PM PST by ETL

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To: meowmeow

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61 posted on 12/21/2020 4:43:38 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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They are bright enough that I got a great picture with my cell phone. ... No idea how to post it.

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62 posted on 12/21/2020 4:54:37 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: All

I feel like Charlie Brown.

Everything that could go wrong, did.

I saw two dots. One in bold and the other was normal, but I did see it.


63 posted on 12/21/2020 5:19:48 PM PST by Dacula
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To: caww

It’s clearly visible here
in SoCal,
Creeps me out.


64 posted on 12/21/2020 6:03:06 PM PST by Big Red Badger ("Bats Soup" to "Nuts" Biden,CHINAs' Beind it ALL!)
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To: meowmeow

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65 posted on 12/21/2020 10:48:20 PM PST by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: ETL

I forgot to go outside and look. Really warm, too. :(


66 posted on 12/22/2020 1:19:57 AM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

The two planets will be fairly close together until the end of the month. However, they’ll be setting earlier and earlier each night as the Sun slowly moves into their section of the sky.


67 posted on 12/22/2020 2:17:29 AM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

Thank you. Usually my sister gives me info on stars, but nothing on this. Probably cuz it’s Christmas.


68 posted on 12/22/2020 11:20:18 PM PST by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Samurai_Jack

That galaxy (Andromeda) is supposedly racing towards our Milky Way galaxy at some ridiculously fast rate. However, it’s so darn far away (2.2 million light years, or 2.2 million x 5.9 TRILLION miles) that it will take about 4.5 BILLION years to get here. And by that time the Sun will have gone into its “Red Giant” phase and likely consumed the Earth! So, in any event, we’re doooomed!!!!!!!


69 posted on 12/22/2020 11:31:25 PM PST by ETL (REAL Russia collusion! DEMOCRAT-Russia collusion!! Click ETL...)
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To: ETL

Hey....the pics I took with my phone turned out just as, or maybe a bit clearer, than these!

We also set up our telescope.

A fun, and historic viewing.


70 posted on 12/23/2020 8:05:08 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow,)
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To: Flick Lives

Odd. I have seen Saturn’s rings as distinct,albeit a tiny image,using a modest 70mmx900mm refractor. Practically same with a 90mm f13 Maksutov. With a 10” reflector Saturn showed pastel bands and the two main rings separate .

The tilt of the rings varies over a 22? year cycle.

Jupiter’s four Galilean moons need only a modest scope or good binoculars,and a few more appear using 8” and bigger scopes. But you can tell them from stars only by referring to current charts.

I got only a few minutes of viewing the Grand Conjunction through a brief patch of clear in a 99+% cloudy sky.


71 posted on 01/13/2021 5:25:46 PM PST by hoosierham (Freedom isn't free)
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