{"id":27270,"date":"2020-12-29T09:29:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T14:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=27270"},"modified":"2020-12-29T09:31:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T14:31:55","slug":"jupiter-and-saturn-will-be-at-their-closest-separation-in-the-sky-since-1623-at-0-1-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/?p=27270","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter and Saturn will be at their closest separation in the sky since 1623 at 0.1\u00b0 apart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TOMORROW Jupiter and Saturn will be at their closest separation in the sky since 1623 at 0.1\u00b0 apart. This animation shows how close they are in the sky. Because 0.1\u00b0 is hard to picture, I&#39;ve added the Moon to give us a sense of scale (Moon is ~0.5\u00b0 diameter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GreatConjunction2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GreatConjunction2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QiI2W44D09\">pic.twitter.com\/QiI2W44D09<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Dr James O&#39;Donoghue (@physicsJ) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/physicsJ\/status\/1340665483100450816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 20, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GreatConjunction?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GreatConjunction<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jupiter?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jupiter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Saturn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Saturn<\/a> thru my telescope just after 6pm. 4 of Jupiter&#39;s moons; Europa, Ganymede, Io &amp; Callisto, and Saturn&#39;s Titan moon visible.  Stacked many images for more clarity and color. Nexstar Celestron 6SE with Nikon D750 attached. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/scwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#scwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ncwx?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ncwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vzP2IAuFnS\">pic.twitter.com\/vzP2IAuFnS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ed Piotrowski (@EdPiotrowski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdPiotrowski\/status\/1341191136564695040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 22, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27279,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27270\/revisions\/27279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.carlrobitaille.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}