Contains:  Solar system body or event
Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, Stijn

Jupiter-Saturn conjunction

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, Stijn

Jupiter-Saturn conjunction

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Jupiter and Saturn, one day before their closest conjunction on 21 December 2020. Three of Jupiter's Galilean moons are also visible (from top to bottom: Europa, Ganymedes, Callisto). Two images were superimposed to generate this picture, each obtained with different gain to balance out the brightness of Jupiter, Saturn and the Galilean moons. Images were obtained from video's acquired with following settings: 29 ms, gain 275 (2000 frames); 13 mm, gain 173 (2000 frames).

Comments

Histogram

Jupiter-Saturn conjunction, Stijn

In these public groups

Astrophotographers of Belgium