| ING Media Archival Record |
| ITEM REFERENCE | 843 |
| PERMANENT LINK | https://astro.ing.iac.es/outreach/?843 |
| EXTACCESS | yes |
| TYPE | Image release |
| TYPE2 | Chronology;Image archive |
| TITLE | The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn |
| KEYWORDS | Solar System |
| DATE | 2020-12-23 |
| ABSTRACT | This image of an unusually-close conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn was obtained on 21 Dec 2020, during tests of the new optical corrector at the prime focus of the William Herschel Telescope (WHT). The image is a composite of exposures taken with a CMOS camera, through blue, green and red filters. |
| CREDIT | Javier Mendez, Richard Ashley, Lilian Dominguez, Emilie Lhome, Jure Skvarc and Ovidiu Vaduvescu (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma, Spain). |
| TELESCOPE | WHT |
| INSTRUMENT | PF-QHY |
| RELATED URL | http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/press/conjunctionJS.html |
| THUMB_75 | 
http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/press/RGB_10sss.png |
| THUMB_200 |
http://www.ing.iac.es/PR/press/RGB_10sss.png |
| TIMESTAMP | 2024-08-30 23:42:35 |
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