The pairing of Jupiter and Saturn in the evening twilight, the day after their closest conjunction, taken here on December 22, 2020. This was from hom

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The pairing of Jupiter and Saturn in the evening twilight, the day after their closest conjunction, taken here on December 22, 2020. This was from home, as a snowstorm in the previous 24 hours had made the roads too poor to travel. Brighter Jupiter is to the left of Saturn and is pulling away from Saturn here, but they were still separated by only 10 arc minutes this evening. This is a stack of 6 untracked exposures to smooth the motion of the clouds, but the planets come from just one of the exposures, all being shots with the 85mm Rokinon lens at f/4 and with the Canon 6D MkII at ISO 200.

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Photo credit: © Alan Dyer / VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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