Jupiter and Saturn nearing their Dec 21, 2020 Great Conjunction, with this image taken December 3, 2020 from the Elbow Falls area on the Elbow River in the Kananaskis Country southwest of Calgary. This is a blend of 4 untracked images for the dark ground, stacked to smooth noise, for 30 seconds each, and one untracked image for the bright sky for 15 seconds to preserve colours and highlights, all with the 24mm Sigma lens and Canon EOS Ra at ISO 200. A dodge and burn layer created by Lumenzia applied. The location was planned with The Photographer’s Ephemeris and TPE 3D apps, to ensure the planets would be visible between the mountain peaks from this site.
Jupiter and Saturn nearing their Dec 21, 2020 Great Conjunction, with this image taken from home on December 1, 2020. Illumination is from the golden light from the rising waning gibbous Moon. This is a stack of 4 untracked images for the ground, and 2 tracked images for the sky, all 30 seconds with the 35mm Canon lens and Canon 6D MkII. Ground exposures at f/4.5 and ISO 400, sky exposures at ISO 200 and f/2.8. The camera was on the Star Adventurer 2i tracker.
Jupiter (the brightest object) and Saturn to the left, close together east of the Milky Way in the deep evening twilight, October 17, 2020. At this time they were heading toward a very close “grand conjunction” on December 21, 2020 when they would be much lower in the twilight. This is looking southwest. We had just received our first snow of the season. This is from home and with the Nikon D750 and Sigma 24mm lens for a stack of 8 x 15-second exposures for the ground to smooth noise and a single 15-second untracked exposure for the sky, all at f/2.8 and ISO 3200. A mild Orton Glow effect added with Luminar 4.
