How to Photograph the 2020 Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn

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Need help photographing the Great Conjunction? Comment below! 👉 And for more cool events, check our super detailed Astronomical Events Photography guide: www.photopills.com/articles/astronomical-events-photography-guide

[@rogerthompson6851]

As far as I can tell right now, the tutorial is great. I'll know more after December 21!

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[@brucemarshall1293]

The graphic @ 0.15 min. Looks like the Great Conjunction occurred November 21, 2020. Did it happen last month?

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Moon Safari in the background 👍

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[@trystanmentoor4740]

Praying for clear skies! It rained by me during the Geminids :(

[@krantzj]

Me to and I am not sure it looks good for this.

[@PhotoPills]

Plan & Pray 😜

[@krantzj]

@@PhotoPills I am. LOL

[@magendhirannarainasamy2228]

Monsoon season is already taking place at my location.. Hope some shines on the weather 🧐🤓🥸

[@scottyg1947]

Thank you for your video. Using your instructions I was able to take some great images of the conjunction including Saturns moons. With some practice I think I can improve my images.

[@PhotoPills]

Cool!

[@johnkeator7994]

Fabulous as usual

[@PhotoPills]

Thank you John!

[@kd5oldman]

Thank you for the video and information. Hey! Weather service is forecasting clear skies on the 21st. Digging my Star Tracker out to make a plan.

[@PhotoPills]

Have fun!

[@magendhirannarainasamy2228]

Your tutorial is too informative and very helpful

[@PhotoPills]

Thanks Magendhiran!

[@frederichore1890]

Great tips Raphael! Didn't know the trick to double-tapp the time bar (1:15) to arrive at the current date. Nice! One question I can't find the answer to on any forum - how high above the horizon will Jupiter & Saturn appear after sunset and deeper into blue hour? I know this will change from day to day - I am looking for Friday 18 Dec when skies are forecast to be clear here. I have my location selected, but want to be sure it will be above my subject - a local illuminated bridge. Cheers and thanks. Frederic in Montréal

[@PhotoPills]

Hi Frederic, unfortunately we don't include planets at the moment. You can't miss them, look for the brightes spot int he sky (Jupiter) in the south-west direction. As it gets darker and darker, Jupiter and Saturn will go down and down till they set.

[@sebfalk1980]

It might be a bit late, but Stellarium is a great app (mobile or desktop) to track the motions of the stars and planets for any location or date. You can easily find the altitudes and rising/setting times there.

[@frederichore1890]

@@PhotoPills Muchas gracias Raphael! Sorry for the late response. I did finally see the conjunction in the sky, but honestly, the two pinpricks of light were, and the media hype about it, was not as interesting nor as bright as when Mars was in opposition at its closest approach to Earth this past fall. Now THAT was excellent, and I got some great shots! (soon to be posted on my IG account at instagram.com/frederic_hore/ ) Love your app - just amazing! Adios! from Montréal :-)

[@frederichore1890]

@@sebfalk1980 Thank you for your tip Seb. Will download it and try it out. Cheers from Montréal

[@PhotoPills]

@@frederichore1890 Thank you Frederic! All the events have something special :)

[@alisonfairley5444]

Thank you Rafael. Really helpful :-)

[@PhotoPills]

Thank you Alison!

[@jakobschneeberger3965]

In the graphic at 0:14 the dates are wrong (2 x November!).

[@PhotoPills]

Yes... the Graph is wrong. It should say december :)

[@kellerfoto]

Great, thanks for the heads up! Any advice on where on the sky the conjunction happens more exactly than „in the west“? Other objects in the sky to orientate?

[@wesleybrilhante5989]

He said to use the app in the beginning of the video you seriously asking that? lol

[@davebryer6133]

It is in the southwest sky and believe me you can not miss it, Jupiter is obvious, being so very bright. Good luck.

[@PhotoPills]

Hi Jochen, you can't miss them if you look south-west. Jupiter is the brightest dot in the sky and Saturn is next to it. I clearly saw them yesterday ;)

[@wilcojuffer5940]

Very nice and I whas out to take the photo but can you do about the clouds ? I live in the Netherlands and the most time it is cloudy grrr

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[@R.Hogarth]

I shot it last night (18 Dec). There is still enough distance between them to clearly see that they are separate planets. I took the shot during astronomical twilight. I used 13 seconds, f/ 2.8 and ISO 100 on a 21mm lens and the exposure was good. In all likelihood, a "Nifty 50" would have been a better lens however; it would have provided enough foreground to give context but would have had more emphasis on the planets.

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Cool!

[@carolstoudt8144]

I am.in southeast Pa And its cloudy...so bummed

[@PhotoPills]

There'll be more opportunities!

[@edmullins4924]

Hi Rafael, excellent video as usual...I have a question...I will photograph through a telescope and have been practicing...my first thought was shoot video and use Autostakkert or Registax to align the AVI frames, but my camera cannot remotely start and stop video (Sony A7 RII)...when I push the button on the camera to start and stop the shaking induced is off the charts, so no video...so next plan is to capture a bunch of stills, ok, not much of a problem here, but when I tried to stack the still in Deep Sky Tracker it doesn't see enough stars (there really aren't any as I exposed for the surface of Jupiter and took images from a heavy light polluted area) and since it couldn't find stars to align it did not align...can you or anyone recommend a post processing flow? Can a bunch of raw files be converted to AVI? If so I can probably go back to Autostakkert...maybe I just need to crop way down first and then try to stack in DSS? I have never done this and could use a pro tip...thanks in advance...

[@PhotoPills]

Hi Ed! Yes, the longer the focal length the more the shaking. If you use the app Remote Camera Control, you should be able to make videos and edit them with Autostakkert (best option). If this doesn't work, try to start a video and delete the part that's shaking before using the stacking software. Its weird that the DSS is not working, have you tried to load fewer images? Also, you can always try to do it in Photoshop: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKepaamqhNGHfNU&ab_channel=AstroBackyard

[@dominiclester3232]

Super, thanks!

[@PhotoPills]

Thank you!

[@sevalaydogan7461]

Thank you for the video and support! Unfortunately it was foggy and rainy :o(

[@PhotoPills]

404 Fatal Error: Clouds!

[@Dazzle1959]

This is a little off topic, but when will PP be available as a desktop app? It would be so much more comfortable to do preplanning on a large 32" screen instead of a little 2 inch screen. :)

[@PhotoPills]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[@Itsbigzev]

@@PhotoPills it wasn’t a suggestion it was a question

[@PhotoPills]

@@Itsbigzev Can't advance any date yet.

[@Itsbigzev]

@@PhotoPills does this conjunction have anything to do with the lord

[@jezrougan]

Please explain how one would close down the aperture on a telescope 🔭 pmsl...

[@paulmorrall5719]

Put the lens cap back 😁

[@PhotoPills]

That's a good one hahaha

[@D300Dave]

Thank you Rafael!

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Thanks David!

[@cwillybiker]

Thanks for another informative and helpful video! Regarding shooting with a telescope or large zoom lens, from my experience if you expose properly for Jupiter, then Saturn will be underexposed. After all, Saturn will be hundreds of millions of miles farther away, so the light will have to travel farther to reflect off Saturn and then get back to us on Earth. The only way around this will be to plan for two exposures -- one for Jupiter and one for Saturn -- and then combine them in post-processing.

[@PhotoPills]

Nice! Thanks for the feedback 🤓

[@jezrougan]

You are correct with needing to change exposure but you'll only need to change it by about 1.5 stops, you also need to adjust the focus for both planets because even though they are both close together from our perspective here on earth they are still a few hundred thousand miles apart... Personal I will be taking 4 exposures two for the planets and two for each of the planets moons, then blending them in post... Clear skies ✨

[@gavinwehlburg8084]

Hi Rafael, many thanks, much appreciated. Is there any way through Photopills that I can determine the bearing and elevation from my location of the conjunction point? Kind regards Gavin Wehlburg

[@PhotoPills]

Hi Gavin! No, at the moments we don’t have planets included 😅

[@fpicotte]

I highly recommend the free Stellarium software.

[@gavinwehlburg8084]

@@fpicotte Hi Francis, many thanks, much appreciated

[@ajayanpoyyara]

Great Raphael, thank you very much for the tutorial. Now , pl tell me how to transfer Whattsapp location stored n the mobile to planner. Often when we scout for nights-cape photograph, we store the location which we identified, as "current location " in Whattsapp sent to any friend as an easy way. But I don't know how to bring this location information directly into Planner, so that it is easy for me to use the planner much easier. Ajayan

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Hi! You can also open the Planner, tap the GPS button and then tap Save > Point of Interest to save that location in PhotoPills. To bring the location to PhotoPills from Whatsapp you first need to export it to Google Maps, there's a button that allows to do it. Google Maps shows the coordinate (latitude and longitude). Open the PhotoPills' Planner, tap Load > Latitude/Longitude and use the coordinate from Google Maps.

[@brucemarshall1293]

The graphic @ 0.15 min. Looks like the Great Conjunction occurred November 21, 2020. Did it happen last month?

[@DianneArnold]

December 21, 2020

[@PhotoPills]

That was my fault... It's on December 21st :)

[@marieta.s]

I managed to observe the two planets yesterday on a the first clear night we got in weeks, with my binoculars and show Jupiter’s two moons. I am not hopeful for the next few days as the weather forecast is not good at all. However, I would like to recommend on the night AR feature to add the major planets like in most apps which you can observe the night sky. You could also toggle them on and off depending on what the user wants to see. Would that be possible? I do not expect to see every celestial body but major features like planets or even the ISS.

[@PhotoPills]

Thanks for the suggestions 👌

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Yes

[@Gilmourdom]

Seriously? You need to ask that??

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@@KennyTelfer thank you.

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Yes!

[@osoriony]

Hola Rafael, me gustaría sugerir que usaras un micrófono cerca a tu boca. Me encanta tu aplicación y tú canal de KZbin, pero es muy frustrante que es díficil de entender. Puede ser un micrófono grande en frente de ti, I uno de esos pequeños que se pegan en el cuello de la camisa. La otra recomendación sería poner cobijas en el piso y las paredes ( sound blankets). Haz el experimento que depronto sirve para mejorar lo único que te falta para que los vídeos sean perfectos.

[@PhotoPills]

Hola! La verdad es que uso micro de botón, debajo de la camiseta. Pero sí... los grabo en el piso y hay bastante rebote...

[@osoriony]

@@PhotoPills Que pena molestarte Rafa. Te juro que el comentario fue con buenas intenciones. La verdad, Photopills es mi App favorita ( de todas las que uso, incluso no relacionadas con fotografía) y como me interesa aprender más, veo tus vídeos con frecuencia pero siempre es el mismo problema. El audio no es muy lejible. Que tal si dejas que el micrófono se vea. Quizás la camisa cubriéndolo es el problema, o será que el micrófono no tiene buen aislamiento de ruidos. Trata de cubrir el piso y las paredes con paneles y mantas que bloqueen el eco. De nuevo, todo espectacular! Solo un pequeño problemita que sería fantástico que arreglaras.

[@nooshisepehrinazar6584]

do you have a email i want to ask you a question

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Yes, [e-mail]

[@kenbrent4152]

Shot the Moon Jupiter and Saturn this evening here in Japan. The batteries in my intervalometer died. I will have to new in the morning. Considering I did okay. I just wish I had a better foreground. If I had the time, I would have liked to go East to have Mt Fuji in the foreground, but that is not going to happen. I could fake the shot but will not. Too bad that this event does not occur with different timing. As I face South, oh well. About the only good foreground I have here is phonelines. Then again, this is Japan.

[@PhotoPills]

Love Japan! Chasing the photo is probably more fun than capturing it ;)

[@EDDIEGARAGE]

Is more like an Italian hand talking

[@PhotoPills]

I know... I need to move less 😅

[@kathyteague829]

Well I think you’re cute, hands and all! Love that accent! Thanks for the great info! I’m going to try it with my 800+tc.

[@budchez7025]

Probably good info if I could understand more than one or two words.

[@rutatutut]

Pushing that CC is such a burden.

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You can enable subtitles by pushing the CC button

[@budchez7025]

@@PhotoPills I wasn't aware that option was available. Thanks.

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I didn't appreciate the political ad.

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What political ad?