{"id":9495,"date":"2020-12-20T21:51:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T21:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/?p=9495"},"modified":"2020-12-21T10:45:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T10:45:54","slug":"the-great-conjunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/the-great-conjunction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Conjunction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The above was what I managed to get earlier this evening with my DSLR, a 70-200mm lens, with a 2x teleconverter. Annoyingly, there’s also a lens converter in the mix, so this is a sub-optimal set-up with respect to the glass I’m using.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m also at the edge of London, so not exactly in a dark sky area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonetheless, you can still see the yellow-ish colour of Saturn at the top of the image. My setup doesn’t let you see the rings, even though they’re perfectly visible from my location with a decent telescope. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lower planet is Jupiter and maybe you can just about begin to see that there are bands around the gas giant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went out this evening rather than tomorrow because tomorrow’s weather looks awful. As it was, I was standing in a field for the better part of half an hour waiting for low clouds to clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This gives you an idea of things to scale from my position looking towards the SW – Central London being directly south.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My exposure here was too long at even 5 seconds, with the planets moving that fast across the sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, I bumped up the exposure in Lightroom to see if I could see any of Jupiter’s moons. Again, there’s a real lack of sharpness, but while you can’t see Europa or Io which should appear just to the right of Jupiter and right of the planet at time of taking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there are two blobs that are Ganymede and Callisto.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because of my poor optical set-up they’re not sharp, so appear much larger compared to Jupiter than they should be. But I’m pretty sure that’s what the image shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Physics Dept at Exeter University put out a very decent live stream earlier this evening which I recommend.<\/a> (It was watching this that made me look for the Jovian moons)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The above was what I managed to get earlier this evening with my DSLR, a 70-200mm lens, with a 2x teleconverter. Annoyingly, there’s also a lens converter in the mix, so this is a sub-optimal set-up with respect to the glass I’m using. I’m also at the edge of London, so not exactly in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[369,61],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9501,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9495\/revisions\/9501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}