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Saturn - Jupiter Conjunction 2020-12-18, Mark L Mitchell

Saturn - Jupiter Conjunction 2020-12-18

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Saturn - Jupiter Conjunction 2020-12-18, Mark L Mitchell

Saturn - Jupiter Conjunction 2020-12-18

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Saturn & Jupiter were 19' 53.75" apart and the sky was clear enough to get this image last night.

Collecting this image and processing it was more complicated than I imagined since the planets just fit the frame, Saturn is much dimmer than Jupiter so I needed two differently exposed videos, and I had to use ChannelCombination in PixInsight to get the R, B, and G planet images to line up. Here's hoping that there is a break in the western cloud cover some time in the next few days.

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Saturn - Jupiter Conjunction 2020-12-18, Mark L Mitchell