Here are several methods I can suggest, in order of increasing complexity and demands for specialized gear.Įasy - Shooting Nightscapes with Wide Lenses This shows the field of view of various lenses on full-frame cameras (red outlines) and a 200mm lens with 1.4x tele-extender on a cropped frame camera (blue outline). Photographing the conjunction will be a challenge precisely because the planets will be so close to each other. Thus the media headlines of a “Christmas Star” no one has seen for 800 years! To find a conjunction that close and visible in a darkened sky you have to go all the way back to Mawhen Jupiter passed only 3 arc minutes above Saturn at dawn. The last time this happened was in 2000, but with the planets too close to the Sun to see.īack on Februthe two planets appeared within 14 arc minutes or 0.23° (degrees) of each other low in the dawn sky.īut on December 21 they will pass each other only 6 arc minutes apart. For a few days the two giant planets appear close together in our sky. On December 21 we have a chance to see and shoot a celestial event that no one has seen since the year 1226.Īs Jupiter and Saturn each orbit the Sun, Jupiter catches up to slower moving Saturn and passes it every 20 years.
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