Did you see it? For most of us who went outside after sunset we could see a bright spot in the sky. Thanks to Hancock Park resident Linda Sanoff for reminding us to look up and for sharing her photos taken with an iPhone.
Fortunately, lots of people were able to capture amazing images of Jupiter and Saturn at their closest in the sky, known as the “Great Conjunction of 2020.” Griffith Park Observatory posted a two hour video of the planets moving across the Los Angeles night sky.
Below is another image, shared by Buzz reader Tony Medley and taken by his friend Glen Dobson in Sante Fe, New Mexico. “I used a Canon Powershot SX 740 point and shoot. It’s got 40x magnification. Kind of blurry but I took this out our back door…you can see several of Jupiter’s moons,” Dobson told Medley.
“I just got really lucky,” Dobson told the Buzz today. “I had to fiddle with the camera but it worked out.”
We agree. We caught up with Dobson hiking this afternoon and appreciate his letting us post this image in the Buzz.
But we also love that we have a local record of what could be seen right over our neighborhood as part of the Buzz’s digital archive. We’d welcome your photos too. You can still observe the great conjunction in the night sky this evening.
