Live View - Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter
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Join the Central Coast Astronomical team for a live view of the Saturn and Jupiter conjunction.
Mark your calendars! On Monday evening, December 21, 2020, the winter solstice (the shortest day and longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere), a spectacular celestial event will be visible low in the southwestern sky during evening twilight: the “Great Conjunction” of Jupiter and Saturn!
What makes this conjunction extra special is that at their closest, the two largest planets in our Solar System will be just 0.1 degrees apart in the sky (6 arcminutes of angular separation) and will almost appear to touch each other as seen from Earth. To put it into better perspective, that is just 1/5 of a full moon diameter.