Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn
Taken by Giorgio Rizzarelli on March 17, 2020 @
Trieste, Italy
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 600D
Exposure Time: 4/1
Aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 100
Date Taken: 2020:03:17 05:34:36
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Unbelievable times: Until recently, from my hometown Trieste (Italy), I often went or even stayed in neighboring Slovenia, because of dark sky and beautiful landscape.
But now both Italy and Slovenia are in national quarantine, with closed borders, in some points divided by an iron curtain for the first time since the Cold War. Everyone must stay home, except for basic needs.
Luckily I live at last floor, so the lockdown didn't stop me from catching the special multiple conjunction occuring these days at dawn: The superior naked-eye planets (Mars, Jupiter, Saturn), which have long been absent from sky, are returning in a big way, now joined by the Moon. Additionally, in these days the four bodies are ordered in the sky as they are in the Solar System. Mercury is also currently visible at sunrise (not in the photos) although very low.
All images are taken with Canon EOS 600D (Rebel T3i).
The first 3 were taken today on roof: a wide field (18mm) to convey the magic I saw, and a medium field (50mm, annotated and not) (zoom to see two Jupiter moons).
Last image was instead taken yesterday, with Moon still more distant in sky from the planets, but at quarter phase (rotated in picture). It features shots of the four bodies in C8 telescope from my balcony. Since the planets were low in sky and heavily obstructed by the house opposite, these are low quality quick shots, and the wide field is just simulated (from Stellarium).
Tomorrow and the day after the Moon will be really close in sky with the planets, in a quadruple conjunction, not to be missed.
PS: In reality there are two more Solar System bodies in the photos: Sun (which causes twilight at horizon) and Earth (the cityscape). I wish to all Earthlings my best wishes that Earth will soon return to be a reasonably habitable planet.
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