Conjunction!

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So there's this Saturn and Jupiter conjunction on solstice. Unfortunately, it's going to rain and snow on solstice, and generally be cloudy, which is going to make us sad about "making a fire from the sun", and also it's going to make the conjunction difficult to see. So, tonight it was clear, and the next couple of nights are predicted partly or mostly cloudy, so we decided to take a look. Turns out, it's close enough now that both of them will fit inside the view of our telescope! Well, it's cold, and also snowy, and in order to actually see the conjunction, we would have to carry the telescope over the snow a ways so it wouldn't be obscured by trees. Thus, we had the brilliant idea that we could leave the telescope indoors! It's not exactly indoors, because it's an unheated porch, but at least there's no snow. There is window glass, but it wasn't terrible.

Unfortunately, I can't get a picture through the eyepiece, so you don't get to see what I saw. Instead you just get to see the setup: