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Jupiter Catching Saturn 12-15-2020 6:50 pm MST, Steve Lantz

Jupiter Catching Saturn 12-15-2020 6:50 pm MST

Jupiter Catching Saturn 12-15-2020 6:50 pm MST, Steve Lantz

Jupiter Catching Saturn 12-15-2020 6:50 pm MST

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After snow here in Denver, it cleared last night, but it was cold!!! I set up to image Jupiter and Saturn, finding out only later that the E-130 was miscollimated a bit, but the image came out fairly well anyway after cropping. The image is a composite of individual frames of 2s for a star background, 0.0014s for the planetary disks (short to avoid blowout) and 0.2s to capture the Galilean moons. I included the Sky and Telescope Jovian moon graphic for the approximate time of the exposures and the agreement is, happily, pretty decent.

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Jupiter Catching Saturn 12-15-2020 6:50 pm MST, Steve Lantz