Astro Event #5: Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn - LIVE-STREAM (19.12.2020)

Hey folks!
So in today's live-stream we want to compare the position of Jupiter and Saturn with yesterday!
LETS SEE THE MOVEMENT OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM!
Gear:
- Skywatcher Newtonian Telescope 750 PSD Explorer
- ZWO ASI120MC-S Colour Planetary Camera (at) primefocus
- Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro Mount
I hope you like the session! I loved it! To interact with the community is really cool!
Ok folks:
Clear skies to you!
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#Jupiter
#Saturn
#Great_Conjunction
#Planetary_Chit-Chat
#Telescope

[@spacemanschannel6380]

Hi Chris, you can do polar alignment during daytime like this: attach a mobile phone with "Google Skymap" on top of the mount where the polar scope looks up to the north pole. On the mobile phone, you will see the celestial south pole. Align to the south pole. Voila! The compass in the mobile phone may be a little bit off from the metal in the mount, but it is better than nothing.

[@catchingphotons]

Thanks for this great tip!
I have another trick I go with: On my patio the bricks match the orientation of my house - and the patio is exactly lined up with the north-south axis. So as long as I orientate the legs of the tripod along the stones/bricks of my patio - I'm fine, more or less.
That works for every place you build up your rig regularly: Polar align and then put marks where the legs of the tripos are. Bäm - there yo are.
Clear skies!

[@texdoms]

Thanks for sharing. I got somehow of a good photo of the Great Conjunction, last night from California with my Nexstar 8SE. Please keep on making great contents!

[@catchingphotons]

It was a lot of fun! I will! Clear skies to you!

[@cuvarsnova]

Thanks for stopping drinking coffee on the videos. I used to drink a whole cup for each of your videos :)~

[@catchingphotons]

:o) My audience seems to be divided - some think drinking coffee within videos is nothing to worry about or even funny but some tend to be offended by this. So I decided: No more coffee within tutorial videos and maybe someday redo's of earlier videos - but that will take some time. Thanks for sticking around man, highly appreciated! Clear skies!

[@cuvarsnova]

@@catchingphotons I didn't mind, I just made a bad joke. Thanks for all the previous work!

[@catchingphotons]

I just uploaded a remastered version of my first videos with enhanced audio quality and no coffee :-) Check them out! Clear skies!

[@cuvarsnova]

@@catchingphotons You're going to hate me now. Without coffee I could reach Mlimit . Chandra made a mistake, mi e is a constant like the rest, mi e is coffee:)~

[@catchingphotons]

@@cuvarsnova Deal: You drink coffee and I talk? :-D clear skies dude!

[@lalolalo1233]

Would the two planets just align to visually give us the effect of one brighter star or would they actually be super close to each other?

[@catchingphotons]

The two planets were "just" super close - and even if they aligned perfectly in the night sky - the overall brightness would not be too high, because Saturn is not the brightest object in the night sky.
Clear skies anyway! -Chris

[@lalolalo1233]

@@catchingphotons Thanks for clarifying. I was able to see how it unfolded here in the Bay Area. Hope you enjoyed too for the memories. Keep your eyes on the sky!