I am not sure where to post this, so I hope it is OK to post this here.

A friend of mine, Stephen Patience, is a very talented timelapse photographer.  He specialises in both day (mostly) and night scenes.

We got to discussing the Jupiter and Saturn conjunction a few months ago, and he was keen to try a local focal length timelapse or Jupiter and Saturn, ideally with the crescent moon, on 17 Dec.  However, the weather forecast for that day was terrible, so he decided to have a go a little earlier.

Other than lend him my Star Adventurer Sky Stacker and suggest a location for the shot, all the credit for the shot, composition etc goes to Stephen.

I think he did a great job for his first skytracked timelapse at 200mm.  The location is on the Kelvin Height peninsula (near Queenstown, South Island, NZ)  which fortuitously looks down the 20km-long central arm of Lake Wakatipu to the Southern Alps.

Thanks also to Van for encouraging us all to take images of the conjunction.

Here is the link, reproduced with permission from Stephen.

Stephen Patience Photography - Time-lapse of the Great Conjunction: Saturn and Jupiter (Southern hemisphere) | Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/StephenPatiencePhotography/videos/time-lapse-of-the-great-conjunction-saturn-and-jupiter-southern-hemisphere/763960847803480/
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