Winter Solstice 2020 ~ ‘Great’ Conjunction of Jupiter & Saturn

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 Jupiter & Saturn - 21 December 2020 

photo by Eleonore Hockabout

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The planets orbit the Sun in approximately the same plane. Conjunctions occur when two or more of them line up across our line of sight. Not to scale. 

 

 

JPL Horizons with NASA image     

 

      

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Eleonore Hockabout         

Memories of Solstice       

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Net links:    

       

The Atlantic ~ Jupiter and Saturn Are Just Showing Off         

BBC News ~ Winter solstice: Jupiter and Saturn 'merge' in rare event 

CBS News ~ Jupiter and Saturn will come together        

CNN ~ Watch for the 'Christmas Star'            

Forbes ~ Once-In-10-Lifetimes ‘Christmas Star’ Planets         

NASA ~ The ‘Great’ Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn      

PBS News ~ Jupiter, Saturn will appear to merge in night sky      

Sky & Telescope ~ Jupiter and Saturn in the Great Conjunction of 2020   

       

       

      

      

       

       

      

       

       

      

Styrous® ~ Solstice, Monday, December 21, 2020

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Memories of Solstice

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Memory of Solstice ~ 2012    
Memory of Solstice ~ 2012 Pt. 2     

A Solstice Celebration 2015          

Last look @ the BAM 2016         

150,000 Pageviews ~ 2016 solstice 

Winter Solstice 2019          

Winter Solstice 2020           

Winter Solstice on the 21st in 2021   

Memory of Solstice ~ 2015   

Summer Solstice ~ 2025 Quaetet                   

       

        

       

        

       

       

Solstice 2007    

photo by Styrous®       

            

Every year on the Solstice, the sun would set due west of our studio windows. The shaft of light from the setting sun would shoot straight down the hallway to the other end of the studio. For some reason, that special day would fill me with joy; I felt the promise of a future of adventures to come.    

I would watch the progression of the setting sun through the year as it marched across the horizon to that one special spot, due west, on the solstice. I loved watching that progresson for 25 years or more.       

A couple of years ago a condo building was erected right across from us, due west, on that very special spot so that the setting sun no longer enters our studio on the solstice.        

      
I miss it terribly. 

    

   

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