The sky this evening is clear and the beautiful pair of Jupiter and Saturn are joined by the lovely Crescent Moon with Earthshine lying low in the western horizon. Image taken using Huawei P40 Pro at 27mm (35mm equivalent) f/1.9 at 1/17 sec at ISO 3200.
The sky this evening is again hazy but Jupiter and Saturn are still visible in the western sky as they continue to get closer each day till its peak of Dec 21 where they will just be separated by 0.1 deg only. Taken using Huawei P40 Pro at 27mm f/1.9 (35mm equivalent) at 1/13 sec at ISO 2500.
December 11, 2020 Jupiter Saturn Great Conjunction
The sky this evening is slightly hazy but I can still see both Jupiter (bottom bright star) and Saturn getting closer and closer each day. Image taken using Huawei P40 Pro at 27mm (35mm equivalent) at 1/15 sec at ISO 2500.
I was able to image the beautiful Jupiter and Saturn Conjunction that was visible after sunset. I used my Huawei P40 Pro at 27mm (35mm equivalent) F/1.9 handheld at 1/8 sec exposure at ISO 12800. The 2 planets will get closer and closer each day till December 21 when they will be at its closest separation in the SW sky at 0.1 degree separation! This is the closest conjunction of the 2 planets for more than 397 years and the last one happened last July 16, 1623!!!
Closeup shot of the 2 planets was taken using Canon EOS M6 Mirrorless camera with Canon EF100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS L lens set at 400mm f/5.6 on Porta II mount. 1/8 sec at ISO 6400. Jupiter also shows the 4 Jovian moons as well on the photo.
Go to see this enormous common Tropical Swallowtail Moth (Lyssa zampa) near our store building driveway which measures a wingspan of around 5.5 inches width. Image taken using Huawei P40 Pro.
Last November 30, Both me and my son brought our camera and lens to try to image the penumbral lunar eclipse. Si ce we had an errand in Clark, we brought along our rig just to be sure we would be able to image the event along the way and we saw the Moon rising up to the cloudy eastern horizon at around 6:00pm PST (Philippine Standard Time +8 GMT)
I use my Canon EOS M6 mirrorless camera with Canon EF100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS L lens set at 400mm f8 on Vixen Porta II mount while my son uses Canon EOS 500D DSLR with Canon EFS 55-250mm on sturdy tripod.
The Moon had already passed the maximum penumbral 83% already which happened at around 5:43pm but we were still fortunate to capture it around 6:00pm till end of the eclipse at 7:53pm before the sky got totally clouded out after the event.
