How to View the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn
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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.
This video explains what Great Conjunctions are and tells you how and when you may be able to see the Great Conjunction of 2020. It also describes what you may expect to be able to see by eye, using binoculars, or through a telescope.
In late December, astronomers from the University of Exeter are also planning to try to live-stream a view of the Great Conjunction from a telescope over the internet. For more information, sign-up at:
jupitersaturn2020.org
Video from Professor Matthew Bate (University of Exeter, UK).
Other links:
Exeter Astrophysics: emps.exeter.ac.uk/physics-astr...
Professor Matthew Bate: www.astro.ex.ac.uk/people/mbate/
The simulations of Jupiter and Saturn in the sky were produced using the Stellarium software, which is free, open source, and works on a variety of computer platforms: stellarium.org
The animation of the orbits of the planets was produced using a modified version of the Python code written by ChongChong He and available at: github.com/chongchonghe/Pytho...
#jupitersaturnconjunction
-- Chapters --
Introduction: 0:00
What is a Great Conjunction?: 1:03
When is the Great Conjunction of 2020?: 3:17
What will it look like?: 4:09
Where will it be in the sky?: 5:12
Viewing by eye: 9:04
Viewing through binoculars: 10:14
Viewing through a telescope: 11:47
Viewing our live-stream: 14:02
Summary: 15:10 - Наука та технологія
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I can always use these events as an accurate long range weather forecast - on the night of the Great Conjunction it will be solid cloud, horizon to horizon.
that is the most accurate weather prediction I have ever seen, ever.
Thats comical but so true.
Like when it was completely overcast 50 miles around during the 2017 north american solar eclipse
You to eh? There's an eclipse in north Africa later this decade, a really good one, totality over 6 minutes near Luxor. Now Luxor is a famously hot and sunny place but if you hear on the news that it was cloudy there on the day then you can be quite certain that I made it to the event.
Hahaha accurate everytime.
I'm happy i stumbled on this video, i see Saturn and Jupiter every night and noticed they're getting closer but didn't realise they'll be so close and what rare moment this will be. Good work
Same.
When is the best time to see them getting closer
You are a very clear narrator and highly convincing with your mild suggestive voice. No pretense, just sense. Thank you, kind Sir.
For a year and six months I've been waiting for this great event!
This is the best animation for the Great Conjunction! Thank you for doing this! Hope you have clear skies.
Thanks for the positive comments!
Thank you much for giving a clear astronomical description of this important phenomenon!
Thank you so much. This is going to be a historic moment to see. Lets all hope for the weather
It's cloudy horizon to horizon right now. I hope God Blesses me with the veiw.
I love professors. This one in particular is especially wonderful.
I love how the great conjunction will happen on winter solstice! What a great show in the sky to celebrate the balance of the Force!
Thank you for sharing this upcoming planetary event, your diagrams and animations demonstrate the spatial aspects of the conjunction very effectively. CHeers
I wish things like this made mainstream news! I would’ve missed the whole thing!
It’s not the purpose of the news to report ‘Real’ events
you can watch the news and be misinformed or not and be uninformed. I much prefer the latter. I seem to remain well informed none the less.
With high school astronomy and space-probe curiosity, i am rarely able to understand the rarified explanations offered of various phenonmena. This is one time I did. Thanks for the clear description and visuals.
I notice this event several months ago when playing with Stellarium. I realize it is all simple mathematics, but whether it be a sunrise, an ISS flyover, or a once in 400 year conjunction, it never ceases to astound me how a prediction so much earlier can come to past
That was a very informative video. We will try to see it with binoculars. I’ve been photographing the two planets all summer so it will be great to see them so close together.
Thank you for this presentation. Hope it is a good show for all.
It is a great beautiful animation for any layman to understand how Jupiter and Saturn align with each other in a particular line of sight. Have not seen any other work depicting this concept so clearly so far. Thanks for bringing this out. In our educational channel as well, my little son and I have posted a general awareness quiz covering Dec 2020 events including this great conjunction. Interested ones can watch our works as well. It is great to be on this learn and share youtube platform where we can all form a like minded continuous-learning community around us. Our best wishes to this channel as well.
Dig out telescope time, great presentation really nicely explained, thank you. ⭐️
Have been watching this unfold for more than a month over our southwestern night sky
How to view: Wait for sundown. Go outside. Find southwest. Open eyes. There it is. Go back inside. Have a drink.
South west???
I'm definitely going to set up my telescope for this ! ! Thank you so much for the info .
Great presentation, I very much hope I get to see this event
Thank you Mr Teets, for your great narration. We enjoyed listening to your clear explanations that were easy for the lay person to understand. You made this event fun to observe! Ohio is rainy, so sadly we had to rely on Vanderbilt to show us the Conjungtion.
Given present conditions it is truly remarkable that this will be seen. Thank you for a lovely presentation. 💗👩🚀
Not necessarily in Exeter though.. We've had some great clear blue skies during the day here. So it's feasible there could be some clear skies at night at just the right time.
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Thank you for explaining this! I will start looking tonight, weather permitting.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Very nicely done and informative.
Thank you for this information. Absolutely great. Love from Australia.
Thank you for the info on these wonderful events.
I live in Hertfordshire and was able to observe Jupiter and Saturn for forty-five minutes, low in the horizon from the high ground to the north of Watton-at-Stone on Sunday evening from 17:30. Mars was also clearly visible by eye and the whole made a little better by a cheap old pair of 10 x 25 binoculars. Thanks.
Lovely presentation, much gratitude for sharing 🪐💞
Excellent presentation. Thank you so much!
I swear if I miss this event...
Update: In the US, the forecast shows that it will be mostly clear on the 21st. On the 22nd, it will be fully clear. This means that people in the US have a chance of seeing the alignment, and this means that I can finally image the planets (video of it coming soon).
I know what you mean!@
First and most important condition is clear skies. By the look of it, at least where I live, it will be cloudy or hazy or both. I've missed ALL events this year because of no visibility. ALL of them.
... what? Don't leave us hanging.
@@DanSlotea I also missed the Neowise comet.😢😭
Yes? Careful in the things you sware by the Universe and karmic intention will be very strong.
I am going to check with my local planetarium if they are broadcasting this once in a life time event.
Thank you very much for this wonderful explanation! Let's hope for good weather!
A real relevant video, 3 years later!!
Good day sir, Very rare, thank you for sharing. I'm really very grateful to you.
Excellent info piece! As an amateur astronomer myself, I can endorse all that was said here.
Only thing I might add, which it really wasn't up to U. of Exeter to say, is that if you're looking for a livestream, and Exeter is clouded out, there will surely be other livestreams in the world with clear skies.
But don't miss the chance to see it in person, if you can!
Fred
Thanks much, I truly appreciate this effort.
21st will be my birthday, what a privilege to be celebrating my birth on a once in 400 years event!
If you stay healthy you might see the next one ☺️
@@stefjoly1426 she's going to live another 400 years
@@RonnieMcNutt_Mindblowing lmao
Mine is April 26!
Thank you for the presentation. ☺
Thank you. I forgot to check how high it would be in the sky. I live 69 degrees north in Norway, so it is hopeless. I will then update my calendar with notes about that there will be attempts to live stream it. I want to show a kid this.
Yes I love his accent too Laura! Have watched this with my family and posted it to my Astronomy Club and will def be out with my telescope & binocs
Jupiter and Saturn have been visible in the southern hemisphere night sky for about two months now maybe 3.
Same in the north, I’m in Ireland and they’ve been in the sky ~5 months
@Lm No 2 stars that don’t twinkle
If these two planets are visible in the night sky in southern hemisphere for months, then what's new about the conjunction of 21st? I mean, we see the planets and it means they're close to us and will just align in that day, why people make conspirancy theories about that day? LOL this happens like every 20 years and it occured again back in the middle ages and 17th century.
Yes, same here in Texas. Saturn and Jupiter in the west, Mars in the east. No stars visible in my location so they really stand out.
Yes but separate. On the 21 the line is very prevalent
I always shipped Saturn and Jupiter... I’m glad their married now
Very informative, thank you!
I'd like to see it this month as I will be 128 years old at the next conjunction......might not be around for the 2080 event....but, you never know!
I’ll only be 121. 😁
I'll be 80 😛
Nobody will be around for it with the way things are going in the world.
Young astronomer here! I'd be 71 in 2080
Me too! 128!
Thank you! Well presented.
Cant wait!
Thanks for this explanation. It was very interesting and informative.
Thank for posting this video
Thank you for this video!
Everyone and their grandmother: "eNdOfThEWoRld!!!"
Me, as Saturn and Jupiter approach: "Now KISS!"
it's revelation 12:7 ;) 2:55
Lmao actually not everyone the lord says few and narrow many don’t pay attention and those who do. Are devil worshipers We must remember the 3 magi seen signs in the sky the enemy wants to stop us from knowing the coming of Christ
kya bol rahe ho kuch bhi samjh my nahe aaraha hi. ....
this video is an excellent job!
HAPPY JUPITER DAY !!🔥💜
THANK YOU!! See you in space.
Thank you for this video and great explanation. My layman understood very well and be ready
A special thank you for posting this video, otherwise I wouldn’t have known where to look for this. As is was I had a splendid view of the conjunction tonight, although I couldn’t see the moons ( binoculars not powerful enough).
Great to hear you saw it.
@@matthewbate5815 I also saw it again 2 days ago. Saturn had passed Jupiter : both were about to be swallowed by a very black cloud!
Thanks for education and information. 🙏🏾
Wow amazing t no will b looking for these two beautiful planets thanku for ur help
hopefully all of us around the world could witness this majestic event, before 2020 ends!
Outstanding explanation and information!!!!!! Thank you!
Thanks !
Brilliant explanation - well done!
Thanks !
Great information on our universe.
Brilliant stuff! As luck might have it, my 4 year old daughter wanted a telescope for her B-day; and my oldest a pair of binoculars... I think we might have to make an evening out of it. Wait for a clear night, look for the nearest hill with clear views to the Sout-SoutEast, bring the camping table, hot drinks, snacks, and all the telescopes/binoculars we can find and see if we can spot them.
Southwest, not southeast. Good luck !
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Great presentation
Structure, pacing, etc
Thanks
"What was sundered and undone shall be whole, the two made one."
Thank you.
I needed to read that💙
Nostradamus wasn’t it?
@@GJ67 Heathen ! Jim Henderson's The Dark Crystal 1984 Aughra predicts the Great Conjunction.
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@@chrisyoung5929 bingo! And also the crystal keepers and their “harvesting” ppls chrome.... we were told quite a lot in that “children’s” film!
so informative, thank u so much! 🙏🏼✨
Super cool. That's my birthday too. Nice present, Universe.
I’m 12/20...glad we get such a fun gift this year!!
Prayers for clear skies for all!,
A great night-sky info !
Looks like the gods are setting up for another brawl. I hope the mighty Jupiter wins
Doesn't surprise me , 2020 has been a terible yearr, so let 'en brawl, lol!!!!🔇🔵
I honestly wouldn’t put money on Jupiter in the ring
Dec 20th, south London; an absolutely beautiful sunset and dusk with both planets clearly visible, but very low in the sky...
Great - glad you got to see it !
Thanks! Will go down to the beach and have look!
Sounds like an awesome heads up for some one with using a small telescope on their check list! Thinking it may be best view^2 of solar system , threw small scope, for the 200+ years he mentioned.
Excellent. Thanks.
Thanks for sharing 🎊
I can’t wait to see
Thank you, Dr. Bates. And thank you for your animations of star and star cluster formation. I have used them (with attribution) in several presentations I have made over the years for my astronomy club.
In California, our window of opportunity on the 21st will include Ganymede in transit across Jupiter's disk. Ganymede's shadow will begin transiting when Jupiter is just above the horizon so we will probably miss that part. I still need to check other nights either side of the 21st for other planet and shadow transits.
With the UK eight hours ahead of us, your window of opportunity on the 21st occurs before the transit. I didn't check other nights, but you will probably have some planet or shadow transit worth catching.
Thanks (animations -- always great to hear of people using them! ), and thanks for the idea about shadows from Jupiter's moons. Will have to check over the next few nights from the UK's point of view.
Thank you for sharing this! I plan to view with family. My dad gas some great binoculars! Ill be sure to ask to borrow his and view this grand cosmic event!
Good luck - I hope you have good weather.
Thank you!!!
dear Sir, thank you for the nice explanation. I finally got it. ZD
Fascinating video. Why not any info about viewing from the Sourhern Hemisphere though?
Winter solstice brilliant a special day indeed
Thank you!!!! Awesome information...
Thank you!
thanks man! looking forward to it; great reason to dust off the old telescope. cheers from the worst place in the world right now, the USA!
Worst place in the world? My goodness you sure take a lot of shit for granted dont you.
Awesome name of professor. Just like mine. Looking forward to this
Wholly suggest you stream this on Twitch -- much larger audience!
Conjunction Junction what’s your function?
They've been very bright and close to each other for much of the evening since the spring here in Canada. I was pointing them out to the kids all summer, along with Mars which is also very close to earth in its orbit right now.
I saw in early spring then it disappeared.
I am excited to view Europa soon :)
Best satellite ever
Thanks for info
GREAT PRESENTATION!@
Can someone recommend a budget telescope for viewing the planets? Our young daughter has recently shown quite an interest in our solar system. Thanks
Fun fact: On July 4, 2020, all of the planets were on one side of our solar system. I found that out messing around in solarsystemscope
Closed drain
God is the amazing consummate artist.
4 2020 hahaha
@@zoehall122 🙄
Please can you post
Thank You.. good information
Great presentation.
Thanks !
For the UK which way would we have to look as I am hearing south/south west and west
Hey, Im in belgium and i see it every evening when the sky is clear. Even mars is visible at the same time. You can also see venus in the early morning.
Mars will trine with Jupiter and Saturn too on 12-21-20. Exactly 8 years to the day after the mayan calendar ended.. Mars July and Saturn all together like a bright star!! Been watching this all year!!!
i live in north Florida will try to see it