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Old 23-02-2013, 07:49 PM
malclocke (Malc)
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A date for your diary - Jupiter & Saturn conjunction 21st Dec 2020 !!

I was fiddling with Stellarium to see when Jupiter would be better positioned for us southerners when I stumbled across this.

On 21st Dec 2020 there will be a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn with only 7 arc minutes of separation. This means the two planets will be within the same eyepiece view, see the attached screenshot at around 150x. Unfortunately the two will be pretty close to the Sun at the time, but who knows, we may all have our own personal space telescopes by then
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