Conjunction of Saturn & Jupiter - 20 Dec. 2020

This image was captured a day before the closest approach of the conjunction. Visible are the same four moons Galileo saw plus a photo-bombing star. Saturn has two of its 60+ moons visible, This image is a composite of three sets of image data. Individual exposures for Saturn and Jupiter were taken with a ZWO ASI290MC camera and stacked using AS!3. Wavelets adjustments in RS6. Wide-field view with moons/stars was captured with a single 4-second/ISO1600 dSLR exposure. All three were were combined in Photoshop.

Conjunction of Saturn & Jupiter - 20 Dec. 2020 - Annotated

This image was captured a day before the closest approach of the conjunction. Visible are the same four moons Galileo saw plus a photo-bombing star. Saturn has two of its 60+ moons visible, This image is a composite of three sets of image data. Individual exposures for Saturn and Jupiter were taken with a ZWO ASI290MC camera and stacked using AS!3. Wavelets adjustments in RS6. Wide-field view with moons/stars was captured with a single 4-second/ISO1600 dSLR exposure. All three were were combined in Photoshop.

Saturn - 7 July 2018

Io & Jupiter - 6 July 2018

Jupiter 2-July 2018

Io, Jupiter, Ganymede, Callisto & Europa (left-right)