New Crescent Moon with Earthshine and Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction
Taken by Mark Seibold on December 14, 2020 @
Portland Oregon
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I've been observing Jupiter and Saturn as these planets approach soon now to close conjunction.
This was an image taken through my Celestron NexStar 5i Cassegrain Telescope last night with my Sony NEX 5r digital camera attached through the back of the telescope so the telescope has essentially become a 1,250 mm telephoto lens. The Crescent Moon with earthshine was taken last February 2020 and composited in to show that it will be beneath the planetary conjunction for the next several nights.
The Moon is accurately to scale as it was also taken through the telescope in the same fashion that I photographed the two planets.
[I'm currently on the road en mobile, so I saved each of the two images here from my earlier Facebook post, which may diminish their quality a bit but the close-up of Jupiter may show all four moons as three on the right side and Europa, I believe, is casting its shadow into the upper North equatorial Cloud band at the right Edge.]
[The moon will not actually appear this close to the planets but it was placed this way in the composite frame to fit the screen for the sake of illustration, to remind viewers to look up starting tonight.]
Photographer's website:
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