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Starry Night Open Thread

by TaMara|  December 21, 20209:34 pm| 29 Comments

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Starry Night Open Thread

I’m sure there will be tons of great photos, including from our own BillinGlendaleCA. But I couldn’t wait to share my favorite Colorado photographer’s work.

“Christmas Star” (Colorado).

My fiancée had the idea and wanted to take a photo of the Saturn and Jupiter conjunction behind this Christmas tree and Pikes Peak tonight. We got there and the tree was not on. So we waited a little bit. The sky got dark but the tree was still not lit. I guess they skipped today for some reason. I decided to combine my “Christmas Star” photo from tonight with the lit tree that I took a few days ago to make her idea a reality. I hope you enjoy it and be merry. ?

https://larsleber.com

I had a great view from the backyard and a few minutes after I spent some time viewing it, they slipped behind a large (lenticular I think) cloud formation. Fun while it lasted.

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  1. 1.

    Hildebrand

    December 21, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    We have a steady rain tonight – won’t be seeing the wanderers.

  2. 2.

    Raven

    December 21, 2020 at 9:36 pm

    We ain’t seed shit

  3. 3.

    Fair Economist

    December 21, 2020 at 9:39 pm

    Very impressive to see. Here in Socal I think it was closer yesterday than today. Really cool both days. It got closer than I’d been expecting as the conjunction approached.

  4. 4.

    Lapassionara

    December 21, 2020 at 9:41 pm

    I saw it. Thrilling. Good to have clear skies.

  5. 5.

    Gin & Tonic

    December 21, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    Enough overcast here that I could see the outline of the moon, but no stars or planets.

  6. 6.

    Nicole

    December 21, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    Oh, lovely picture! From our roof in NYC we could barely see it. I mean, we saw it, which is great for NYC skies, but it was just a tiny dot with another tinier dot next to it.

    Still, that’s better than we did with the comet this summer.

  7. 7.

    Timill

    December 21, 2020 at 9:53 pm

    Today of all days we had clear skies… It’s been overcast for weeks, it seems.

  8. 8.

    Rob

    December 21, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    The Pikes Peak photo is amazing.

    I can hardly wait to look for it tomorrow in the DC area. We’ll try from our local bark with binoculars. It may not even be cloudy at sunset.

  9. 9.

    Quantumman

    December 21, 2020 at 9:54 pm

    Great picture!

  10. 10.

    HumboldtBlue

    December 21, 2020 at 9:59 pm

    We’re getting cold, wet NW rain from Gulf of Alaska.

    On another note, this is an excellent read about race, Karens, and us.

  11. 11.

    Mary G

    December 21, 2020 at 10:05 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: Send some rain south; we are dry as a bone down here.

  12. 12.

    scav

    December 21, 2020 at 10:06 pm

    Speaking of stars, Olive and Mabel – Exit the Stage. (Don’t worry.)

  13. 13.

    Spanky

    December 21, 2020 at 10:07 pm

    After getting a great view of it this evening (see Adam’s post), it’s now raining. This is the opposite of my usual observing luck.

  14. 14.

    Dahlia

    December 21, 2020 at 10:08 pm

    It’s snowing here so no stargazing tonight for us.

  15. 15.

    Comrade Colette

    December 21, 2020 at 10:08 pm

    In San Francisco: clouds and fog started moving in just at sunset, then pulled back again! Good view from my living room window, gooder view from the top of a nearby hill, goodest view from a park overlook a mile away where the City has kindly turned off the streetlights and several fellow starfreaks gathered to gawk. I’m planning to go out there again tomorrow night if it’s still clear. I don’t believe in omens but this totally is one, right?

  16. 16.

    Old Dan and Little Ann

    December 21, 2020 at 10:09 pm

    I’ve seen the stars once maybe in the last 2 weeks in western NY. Tonight is cloudy, too.  Fucking Bollocks.

  17. 17.

    debbie

    December 21, 2020 at 10:11 pm

    Even if the sky had been crystal clear, I would never have seen the moons like I do in the photograph up top. Thanks.

  18. 18.

    JAFD

    December 21, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    Had a 4 PM appointment with eye surgeon this afternoon (not in Montclair, but two towns over.)  New lenses look well, got prescrip for new glasses, finished at 5:15  Walking to bus stop, with new lenses and dilation drops, all the lights in my sight – from moon (thru clouds) to little Christmas lights – had two ‘circles of light’ around them.

    Ain’t seen light show like that since 71 …

    (But Jupiter & Saturn slipped my mind…)

    Hope all of you jackals had a happy Hannukah and Solistice, and will have a wonderful Christmas and Boxing Dav and Kwanzza and New Year’s, and a happy healthy and prosperous 2021 !

  19. 19.

    There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)

    December 21, 2020 at 10:15 pm

    I’m outside right now. Lots of sky where we live. Just too goddamn tired to look up. Frontline guy. Send pictures. Goodnight.

  20. 20.

    HumboldtBlue

    December 21, 2020 at 10:15 pm

    @Mary G:

    SoCal family calling for it like you.

    @scav:

    Fuck.

    For a moment.

    Elsewhere, I just watched the opening to Pee Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special 1998. It was fantastic.

    The diversity on display was fantastic.

  21. 21.

    Redshift

    December 21, 2020 at 10:16 pm

    It was cloudy here at sunset, but then it cleared up a bit, and I got to see it! There’s enough light pollution that it was one dot where there were two last night, but it was still pretty cool to see

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    December 21, 2020 at 10:55 pm

    Y’all do know it’s a hoax and Space Force will be deployed to prove that, don’t ya?

    “Guardians, assemble!”

    //

  23. 23.

    Yutsano

    December 21, 2020 at 10:57 pm

    Current mood.
    Yes I like both versions. Get off my damn lawn.

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    December 21, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    @Yutsano

    Mood? Indigo.

    ;)

  25. 25.

    kindness

    December 21, 2020 at 11:12 pm

    It’s been completely fogged over these last two days.  No stars tonight.  Too bad.

  26. 26.

    Bill Arnold

    December 21, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    This is fun:
    Trump trashes McConnell to fellow Republicans (Jonathan Swan, 2020/12/21)

    President Trump lashed out at Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday night for acknowledging Joe Biden won the election, sending a slide to Republican lawmakers taking credit for saving McConnell’s career with a tweet and robocall.
    …
    In the case of McConnell, who survived a $93 million onslaught from veteran and Democratic challenger Amy McGrath, Trump’s slide points to polling that showed the Kentucky race in a dead heat until June 19, when the president sent a tweet endorsing the Senate leader.

  27. 27.

    Punchy

    December 21, 2020 at 11:17 pm

    Shouldnt Jupiter have come during Hanakkah?  And should I be happy about Saturn?

  28. 28.

    Kayla Rudbek

    December 22, 2020 at 3:27 am

    We managed to see it with naked eyes,  binoculars, and the telescope.  Mr. Rudbek has ordered a mechanical remote switch for the telescope camera, as he says that touching the camera button to take the photo messes up the steadiness of the telescope and camera. He’s also trying to figure out how to jury-rig a motor drive that would run off some sort of battery, as this telescope is probably about 30 years old and it didn’t come with a motorized drive.

  29. 29.

    Miss Bianca

    December 22, 2020 at 10:29 am

    I got to see the reincarnation of the “Great Star of the East”…ok, it was to the south, but it’s the thought that counts!

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