Anatomy of a Composition - a great conjunction
2020 wanted to provide one more celestial beauty to share - the Great Conjunction. An event 800 years in the making, the alignment of Saturn and Jupiter in the winter sky as the two giant planets come to less than 1 degree of each other from the viewing vantage point of earth.
In reality the planets were still 456 million miles apart, yet on the eve of the Winter Solstice the two were close enough together to appear to be one “star” in the night sky. It will be another 60 years before the duo recreates this site, so capturing the cosmic interlude, and the scale of the night sky, buoyed to the top of the Solstice image list priorities. Eleven vertical images, edit and stitched into this panorama, creating a beautiful 144MB image. Perfect for a large panorama or triptych.
Jupiter and Saturn hanging high above Mt. Evans, Winter Solstice, 2020
a great conjunction ~ ISO 200 | F/1.8 | .5 sec. Sony a7riii & Sony FE135GM