On December 21, the Winter Solstice, there was the Jupiter and Saturn Conjunction event and was the longest dark day of the year. It also provided a beautiful sunset that evening. While I am not usually a fan of airplane vapor trails, these provided some interesting lines in the image to go along with the color.
A week ago, on the night of the Winter Solstice, there was the "Great Conjunction" of Saturn and Jupiter. While it was neat, I think the hype was a bit over rated. Supposedly they were supposed to be so close it would look like they were touching. Maybe at some point it did look like that, but that is not what I got to see. This image is a composite, both were taken on the 21st but they were too far apart to get in a single frame so I took the liberty of moving them closer together. 😉 The moon was one image and the planets were the second, Jupiter is on the left, Saturn is dimmer. If you have seen any images of the conjunction on the internet where you see the rings of Saturn, those are fake.
