December 21, 2020 Following summer’s surprise appearance of Comet NEOWISE, winter of 2020 held another rare astronomical event: the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn. The two closest gas giants have a conjunction from Earth’s perspective every two decades or so, named a “great conjunction” for its intensity and rarity. Johannes Kepler theorized that this conjunction... Continue reading: Designing a Telescope Adaptor Before the Planets Align
