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Harrowsmith ON 6:10pm, 12/22/2020br/ Nikon D810a iso 1600 1/160s exp Edge HD 9.25quot; SCT @ prime focus, cable release.br/ An image of two planets, Jupiter and Saturn. This image was shot through a telescope and I see the rules allow for this. The weather had not been cooperating. We were clouded out for much of the lead up to and including the day of closest approach. But miraculously, a big clearing opened in the cloud deck over Eastern Ontario and we were able to see it. This was a seminal moment in amateur astronomy for me. Nobody alive had ever seen this and will not again for centuries. First, I looked through an eyepiece at the two gas giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn and fortunately they were still in the same field of view. It was still twilight, but the planets were getting low in the west, and would soon be in the trees so I quickly switched over to take a few quick shots with my DSLR. My pictures reflect quite nicely how the field of view looked through my eyepiece (24mm).
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