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Something Remarkable out of the Unremarkable

I was delighted to see both planets, along with all four of the Galilean moons, visible in the same field.

Assuming no more cosmological events of note for 2020, I found the “great conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn to be not all that great.

Consider this a trial run for Mars’s opposition next week.

The image above was the most spectacular, captured very early in the session.

Continuing the series of images from this past Friday night were shots taken of Jupiter and Saturn.

I am under no illusion that seeing galaxies is possible from my location on Earth.

Here is what I hope will be the return of an observation technique I have not done for a while – sketching.

I knew I had to act quickly to photograph them, as they were moving fast and I didn’t know how long they would be visible or if more were coming.

I took a number of images of the nebula, playing around with the exposure and ISO settings.

Inspired by other blogs such as Heads UP! taking cool pictures of Venus near the Pleiades, I knew I had to get in on the action myself.