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Select “SEE MORE” in the white bar below for a few more images from “The Great Conjunction”.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n December 21st, when the planets would be \u201cclosest\u201d was predicted to be overcast, so I drove about 90 minutes away on the 20th to capture what I could. Then on December 22nd, I took the photos that I could from my yard in Elgin. You can see how much the planets have travelled (in relation to each other) within that 48 hour period.<\/span><\/p>\n During the summer of 2019, I discovered that Jupiter\u2019s 4 Galilean moons were large enough to capture with a reasonable camera, and a moderately long lens. Then in September 2020, the moon and Jupiter passed close to each other, and I captured some during that astro-phenomenon.<\/span> “The Great Conjunction”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,45,21,675],"tags":[5056,5893,5892,4818,5259,5346,4278,5871,188,849,5345,4367,4369,195,4368,28,5688,860,5349,94,101,5895,5894],"class_list":["post-19370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstract-unique","category-nature-sunsets","category-stars-streetlights","category-writing","tag-150-600mm-f5-6-3","tag-20-12-20","tag-20-12-22","tag-4818","tag-astronomy","tag-astrophotography","tag-d750","tag-dec20","tag-december","tag-elgin-il","tag-galilean-moons","tag-jupiter","tag-jupiters-moons","tag-moon","tag-moons","tag-night-photo","tag-night-photos","tag-nikon","tag-saturn","tag-stars","tag-sunset","tag-week-3-2021","tag-yorkeville-il"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19370"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19576,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19370\/revisions\/19576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"BL0858](\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BL0858-201220-172256.jpg\")
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\n So when I read about the \u201cGreat Conjunction\u201d, I already had a little bit of practice at photographing planets. I did attempt to capture the rings of Saturn, and discovered that I was just shy of being able to see Saturn\u2019s rings with my 600mm on a 24mpxl full frame camera. However, I was determined to see what I could gather.<\/span>
\n With Lightroom\u2019s help, I am able to \u201czoom & enhance\u201d just enough, but honestly, to capture Saturn\u2019s rings you need either a telescope, a longer lens or a higher megapixel sensor.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"BL0921](\"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/BL0921-201222-170519.jpg\")
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