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Early Morning Glimpse of Saturn and Jupiter

You can also see sloping towards the right some of the brighter stars in the constellation Sagittarius.

This early morning view was simply too good to miss, so yes, I stayed up to at least see it when the Moon had risen high in the South.

This is a very exciting post, at least for me. It’s the first time on my blog that I have a picture of Jupiter and Saturn together!

As with Jupiter, I relied on all of my past experiences for the preliminary camera settings, specifically for ISO and exposure.

As I had not filmed Saturn since last year, I was very worried that the results would not be good.

What is neat about lining all three images side-by-side is that they were taken with the same telescope and same equipment setup.

I had great difficulty locating Saturn that night and it was almost 20 minutes before I locked on.

It will be a challenge to get the ISO and exposures right, since Saturn is fainter than Jupiter.

If it were not for the planets, where would civilization be today? For one, I doubt I would have this computer, and the electricity to power it.