Great Conjunction 2020 - Live Views of Jupiter and Saturn from Exeter, UK
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- Опубліковано 31 лип 2024
- In late December 2020, the two largest planets in our Solar System, Jupiter and Saturn, will be so close in the sky that they’ll both be visible through a telescope eyepiece at the same time. Such close passes are known as Great Conjunctions. The Great Conjunction of 2020 will be the closest in almost 400 years.
In this live stream the Astrophysics Group at the University of Exeter and the Exeter Science Centre try to bring you live views of Jupiter and Saturn from a telescope. We also have a panel of expert speakers answering questions.
More information about the event: jupitersaturn2020.org
#jupitersaturnconjunction
Other links:
Exeter Astrophysics: emps.exeter.ac.uk/physics-astr...
Exeter Science Centre: exetersciencecentre.org/
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-- Chapters --
Starting Soon: 0:00
Welcome: 0:23
First Live View of Jupiter and Saturn: 8:18
Video: Countdown to Conjunction: 14:22
First View of Saturn and Jupiter's Moons: 18:22
Information About the Telescope: 22:12
Back to Jupiter and Saturn's Moons: 25:18
Video: What is a Great Conjunction: 26:00
Questions: How far apart are Jupiter and Saturn? Which one moves faster?: 27:02
Question: Will Jupiter ever pass directly in front of Saturn?: 28:21
Video: When will we next get a Great Conjunction?: 29:47
Question: How far apart will Jupiter and Saturn appear on the sky?: 31:51
Live View of Jupiter and Saturn: 34:55
Video: Jupiter and Saturn During the Formation of the Solar System: 37:57
A Better View of Jupiter and Saturn's Moons: 42:02
Question: Which is older: Jupiter or Saturn?: 47:39
Question: How many moons has Jupiter?: 49:31
Video: The History of Great Conjunctions: 50:20
A Detailed Look at Saturn and its Moons: 54:12
A Detailed Look at Jupiter and its Moons: 1:06:04
Questions: Would you be able to stand up on Jupiter or Saturn, or would you fall through them? Do they have a solid core? 1:19:20
Question: How big is Jupiter's red spot?: 1:21:28
Video: Discussion about Exoclimatology with Prof Nathan Mayne: 1:22:45
Question: Why are we using a portable telescope?: 1:27:06
Tips for Doing Astronomy Yourself: 1:29:52
Video: Discussion about Modelling Planetary Climates with Dr Stephen Thomson: 1:33:19
Last View of Jupiter and Saturn and the Appearance of Io: 1:37:42
Question: Is there a heaxgonal electrical storm at one of Saturn's poles?: 1:35:39
Question: Why don't asteroids in the asteroid belt obscure the view of Jupiter and Saturn?: 1:41:52
Question: When will people be able to orbit Jupiter or Saturn?: 1:43:10
Video: Views from Last Night: 1:44:55
Question: Why are all planets orbiting in the same direction, and in the same plane?: 1:48:40
The Telescope through a Low-light / IR camera: 1:50:32
A View of the Moon: 1:52:00
Question: If there was life on Jupiter, what would it look like?: 1:55:02
Question: What kind of telescope / binoculars would be best for a beginner?: 1:56:42
Question: Do Jupiter and Saturn change their speed due to gravitational attraction?: 2:01:25
A Final Look Through the Telescope - Neptune: 2:03:03
Question: Will the next Great Conjunction in 2080 be higher in the sky?: 2:04:34
Thanks for Watching and Credits: 2:06:19 - Наука та технологія
As a member of the general public! We don't mind! Thank you! THIS IS AWESOME! So happy to see this!
Thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I really appreciate it!
Thank you from New York! Cloudy and snowy here so thank you for this!!! Loved it!
Thank you all so much!! This is so exciting!! Its cloudy where im at in Virginia, so im so grateful to be able to see them on this video
Thanks - we had a lot of fun doing the live-stream. I'm sorry you haven't seen the Conjunction yet, but do keep trying over the next few days. They're still going to be close together over the next week.
Hello from Nova Scotia, Canada. I saw a beautiful clear view on December 16 with a narrow crescent moon. Cloudy here tonight. I was very excited to watch. Thank you so much :)
Im at Port Kennedy in Perth Australia and just walked outside and looked West South West and can see them easily as we have a very clear night here
This is so very sweet. Thank you!
Thank you so much! 🙏 Loved your livestream 😍👍
Hi from Athens Greece and thank you all!
It's so awesome to be alive and see this!
I couldn't figure out the two in this enormous winter night....and was about to get freezed..but what matters is that I watched the beautiful clear night sky....and directly or indirectly, watched it....and now I'm happy to be a part of this great historic event....
Socked in with clouds this evening in Seattle...this is really excellent! Thank you for all your work putting it together! Cheers from over here. Happy Christmas!
Thanks - we had a lot of fun doing the live-stream. I'm sorry you haven't seen the Conjunction yet, but do keep trying over the next few days. They're still going to be close together over the next week.
Hello 👋 from St Johns , Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada 🇨🇦. A drizzly night here, so your live feed with the great view of the planets is awesome. Great too that you have so many professors and experts to answer questions.
Thanks so much!!!!
Thanks for the positive feedback !
I tried to see this with my own eye but I live in Scotland and its been raining all day with cloud coverage! So thankful for this feed.
Well, here in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America we have had several very cloudy days and we could not see (and try to photograph) the Star of Bethlehem or The Christmas Star, despite my travel of several tens of miles looking for a clear space!
Well I tried because I can't wait another 800 or 400 years for the next conjunction like this that just happened!
Fortunately and thanks to the excellent work and enormous passion of the Collective of Doctors of the Public Research University in Exeter, Devon, South West England, United Kingdom and the wonders of technologies and the Internet, I was able to enjoy more than a simple vision of the astronomical event , a very didactic and instructive conference.
Thank you, many Thanks to the professors at the University of Exeter and everyone who helped produce this wonderful video on your Physics at Exeter channel.
If someone could put the subtitles in Spanish this video could be a good study material for us Latinos, I recommend it.
Just saw the convergence with both binoculars and naked eye in Lansing Michigan at 6:15 PM EST. No question what we were seeing. Very cool.
What binocular did you have?
In my country is very cloudy since 2 weeks.
I bought 10x50 one week ago. Can I see Jupiter's satelites with it?
@@Domnu. I managed to see some of Jupiter's moons using 8x56 binoculars a few weeks ago. So you might be able to. Will depend a bit on how clear the sky is (e.g. haze).
@@matthewbate5815 Thank you! Greetings from Romania!
Great program, thank you!
Really appreciate this wisdom and your professionalism. You guys are amazing.
Thanks -- it was a lot of work, but we also had a lot of fun putting it together.
santos bonacci is THEE man who tells astrology better than ANYONE
its too clowdy where i live, such a pitty because i really wanted too see it myself but i love it that you guys do this
Thanks, Kaydence. We had a lot of fun doing the live-stream. I'm sorry you haven't seen them yet, but do keep trying over the next few days. They're still going to be close together over the next week.
@@matthewbate5815 REALLY??
Its a once in a many years opportunity.
@@explodingyoutube9783 yes that right!
Spectacular! I feel sort of priviliged really to see the Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. Wonderful presentation and explanations from the Exeter team. I was also intrigued by the contribution from a mathematician, Dr Stephen Thomson. I wonder if he trying a different tack in solving Riemann's Hypothesis - the solution may be in the stars, or perhaps the planets! Come to think of it, the Great Conjunction might augur Dr Thomson's solving the great conjecture! Geddit? Thank you for a wonderful presentaion! Loved it! Roll on 2040, 80 and so on...
Absolutely loving this, especially the expert coverage from the astro physics team at Exeter university . Went out with my binoculars with my wife and daughter to see the great conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter, unfortunately too cloudy couldn't see anything also not sure if we even located the right part of the sky. Would love to visit the university for a demo of how to view planets and constellations in future and what equipment we need as an armature. Thank you for the coverage, great job team.
Viewing from overcast Warwick, Rhode Island, USA. Thank you for doing this. Merry Christmas and happy holidays. Be safe all.
Thanks - we had a lot of fun doing the live-stream. I'm sorry you haven't seen the Conjunction yet, but do keep trying over the next few days. They're still going to be close together over the next week.
@@matthewbate5815 Well aware of the time scale. Taking the family to a good location for viewing the next few nights for view. What a treat. . .
Aloha from Honolulu, Hawai’i, where I’m planning on going camping, away from city lights to see this magnificent event tonight and tomorrow (20 & 21 December). Thank you very very much for all the information provided!!! Aloha 🙏
Same 😍
Thanks - I hope you have a great trip and get to see Jupiter and Saturn in dark skies. I've only ever been to the Big Island, but loved it.
@@matthewbate5815 Hawai’i island is beautiful and offers better conditions to see the skies! 🌌 Happy solstice! 🌟🪐✨
just went outside on my patio saw the stars with a clear sky
They are not stars
They are planets
@@unkownbot5601 the conjunction is today
Lucky. It's cloudy where I live
@Rikeit two - UA-cam boogaloo ugh ik
Watching it right now from my balcony here in Banglore 🇮🇳
Brilliant presentations and what an international audience. Thank you
Thanks for the positive feedback!
Nga mihi Exeter team 🥳🙏👏🏽 this is amazing and informative ka rawe!!
Thanks - good to hear you enjoyed it.
Thank you from Australia 🪐🌏💚
It is raining where I live in Australia. So I am enjoying your live. Viewing this from East Coast Australia.
Thanks. I'm sorry you haven't seen the Conjunction yet, but do keep trying over the next few days. They're still going to be close together over the next week.
This was awesome
Beautiful!!!
Hello Everyone from Nova Scotia, Canada. Thank you for doing this...it's overcast and cloudy out here today! So ready to move into the Age of Aquarius.
Have been watching in the skies here in Australia... so fantastic
I loved the funny electronic sounds whenever Nathan attempted to speak. They sounded like they were from the old TV show Lost In Space. 🤪
They say the great conjunction would be a big event but nobody expected Nathan to start turning into a droid XD
It's overcast here so it's awesome to be able to see it and have people talking about it. A big thanks from this novice!
Thank you guys
excellent guys. greetings from scotland (where currently we cannot see it!). hopefully tomorrow
I am an old student of St Luke's College, Exeter (1984) and live in Cheshire. Earlier this evening my wife and I finished our afternoon at Tatton Park, nr Knutsford with the grandchildren (Covid rules) and were heading for home in Stockport when I realized that the conditions were perfect to see the Great Conjuction. It was 4pm...the sky was perfectly clear and yellowish just before sunset. Once we cleared the woodland of the hall we looked in the south west to try to see the planets. All we could see was the moon but no sign of planets. As we passed through the centre of Knutsford my wife shouted "I can see it to the right of the moon, but now its gone in the trees". I turned down into a valley heading home. I wasn't going to miss it. I made a loop of the town and we finally could see the planets close together across a village green, at 5pm. We took several shots at leisure and that was the end of that. We got there in the end. My wife could see two separate planets with the naked eye but I could only see one mass...Saturn above Jupiter.
Well done -- your persistence paid off
Historical. this comment will be evidence for me seeing this moment
Thanks.
Be blessed.
Greetings from Romania.
It helped me so thanks mates.
Very Nice ! I had to go from Lorient to Utah Beach in order to get some data today ! Clear skies !
Great to hear you were successful. Well done.
So cool!
Where are you? Hello from Ohio, USA. Excited to view Saturn and Jupiter!
The golden rule of British astronomy: whenever there is a major event it always rains.
That said, I managed to get a decent 30 min view from Northants 20/12 with both planets in view in my 4.5" refractor. Quite stunning 😍
Great to hear you had a break.
This is really cool.
So interesting!!!
Watching from Logan Utah. Too cloudy tonight. Was good view on Friday. Perspective of view point,the 4 moons of Jupiter were not discovered until the telescope was invented but could they be seen from the surface of Mars without a telescope when Mars and Jupiter are at their closest?
About a year ago there was a "cloud" or something like that appearing in our solar system. Could you tell me did we go through the cloud or is the cloud still visible in space? Our solar system?
Watching from Georgia, USA, 2 hours after the live stream .
Thanks for watching - hope you enjoyed it.
Hello from Northville Michigan!
Exciting.
Watching on the 21st. It's raining here so I'm grateful for this sight from yesterday.
Keep trying over the next few days. They're still going to be close together over the next week.
What was the image of the guy with devil horns that flashed up?
Any chance of 3 days of darkness?
From Ethiopia , We expect eagerly
Exciting
How many years until the next grate cognition?
Thank you!! It’s cloudy here
Keep trying over the next few days. They're still going to be close together over the next week.
Is this going live?
i’m 7. can you tell me how to use the telescope
Sky is clear here in Orlando Florida, but there are too many trees in my line of sight.
Today from India uttar pradesh at which time we can see the great construction
How can I see in the afternoon sky?
Aloha from Hawai‘i -- specifically, from Kāne‘ohe on the island of O‘ahu!
Amazing ❤️
Do the moons come in to vewe
Hello from Chicago
telescope and eyepiece ready but weather doesn't look good tomorrow :( high Laurentians, QC
Do keep trying over the next few days. They're still going to be close together over the next week.
What will the age of Aquarius mean for people on earth? Does the vibration of the earth change?
Here in Kerala (southern India ) it's highly visible now
Yes
Thank you all !,,, Mitch from Crater Lake Oregon.......... resources from our Solar community will allow us to meet complex Life, someday. I believe. M1007.....
I have photoed the conjunction here at 86.13 degrees West. 6:00 p.m. hour EST.
Can you put the picture you've got,it be awesome to see it
Please can you tell us, what is the linear velocity of the planets, is it the same for all of them?
Decreases with increasing distance from the Sun. Decreases as one over the square root of the distance from the Sun.
This was all great to see, but I was really hoping to see the two planets coming together at one point, on 21st. A lot of us live in areas that are cloudy on this day, so I was hoping to find a serious live stream like this, to see the actual conjunction live today after sunset in European time. Such a shame. But thank you anyway.
Jupiter and Saturn don't come together to overlap during this conjunction. They 'only' get as close as 1/5 the Moon's diameter. On the 20th, they were 1/3 of the Moon's diameter apart, so about 50% further apart than on the 21st, but fairly similar.
@@matthewbate5815 Hello, thank you for the answer. I somehow understood, mainly from the media, that the conjunction on the 21st December will appear to the naked eye as one bright star. So it never came close enough to shine as one star? I think this is what everyone wished and hoped to see live. I have seen it on your live stream last few days but not so close. I live in Vienna, it was totally cloudy for weeks now, still is.
@@sachertorte9806 Yes, the media went a little overboard with the idea of them appearing as a single bright star. They got close, but were still distinguishable as two separate objects. Some media have been talking about a "double planet" which is more accurate. Sorry about the cloud you've had.
At what time will the actual conjunction be in the closest proximity? (I don't mean UK time; I mean sidereal time or at what "real moment" and where.)
Closest passage at 18:37 GMT on December 21st.
I must be getting old.. these professors look way too young ... :D :D :D Thank you so much for doing this. I live in the midwestern USA, and it was cloudy and rainy; I had been so looking forward to seeing this. If I am correct, it still should look fairly impressive tomorrow night, so hoping it will clear up! Happy Solstice/Conjunction all!
Thank you for the positive feedback. Yes, do keep trying over the next few days. They're still going to be quite close together over the next week.
@@matthewbate5815 Thank you so much for the reply! That's great, because it was cloud covered last night. Will they still look like one star then to the naked eye? I may get a chance after all!
@@oliviad6713 Even at closest passage on the 21st, they weren't close enough to appear as a single "star". They were still distinguishable as two separate "stars" for most people.
What way do I look towards later on today and what is the best time roughly?
Look to the southwest, close to the horizon from about 1/2 an hour after sunset. Best time probably about 1 hour after sunset.
Watching from Paarl (50km NW of Cape Town South Africa). They are about to disappear behind Paarl Mountain
Neat !
in Belgium overcast and rainy. So very little chance to see this unique event :-(
Do keep trying over the next few days. They're still going to be close together over the next week.
Hello from Washington State.
Aloha! I hope this isn’t too silly a question...The sun shines on the planets and that’s what makes them visible to us, right?
That’s right
@nobita nobi Twinkline things in the night sky are all stars, producing their own light. Our sun is a star, so all of them are like our sun and have their own solar systems...That blows my mind X
🖤🖤🖤
Was so looking forward to seeing this tonight but it’s raining.
Do keep trying over the next few days. They're still going to be close together over the next week.
Nice team effort
Thanks -- we had a lot of fun.
You should have done this today but thanks for the video.
Unfortunately it's completely overcast here today. Fortunately the difference in distance between the planets didn't change that much.
I forgot it existed and completely forgot, it was a clear night too...
I see 5 moons around Jupiter. What are they besides Io, Ganymede, Callipso, and Europa?
It’s a background star that just happens to be in the field of view. It has nothing to do with Jupiter or Saturn
Hello from Mexico City!!
There is no audio!!!
Hi from Baltimore, Maryland.
Had a great view in Kent last night.
Good to hear.
surprised I can currently still resolve the 2 planets w my naked eye 🌍🌏🌎 🌕
Raining where I am in Australia currently :( I had my telescope and camera ready a few days ago.
Do keep trying over the next few days. They're still going to be close together over the next week.
In Lviv it is partially cloudy and exactly that part of the sky is hidden under clouds.
Do keep trying over the next few days. They're still going to be close together over the next week.
Hopefully in the next 2 days I'll be somewhere where there might not be so much thick cloud in the SW sky as there is, typically, in the UK...
It's looking like Christmas Eve might have pretty good weather in the UK. Still worth looking for Jupiter and Saturn then -- they'll still be pretty close together.
@@matthewbate5815 I hope to be back in Germany long before then, where the skies are generally clearer ;-)
Nice 👍
Matthew Bate?
Surely not! His parents had a great sense of humour!