PhD student Newlin Weatherford, who holds the Riedel Family Graduate Fellowship at CIERA, captured the Great Conjunction (“Christmas Star”) of Jupiter and Saturn on December 21, 2020 at 6:20 pm PT from Novato, California. Using his Panasonic DZ1000, Newlin wasn’t able to resolve Saturn’s rings, but we can see Callisto and Io and many faint stars in the magnitude 7-9 range.
![Great Conjunction 2020](https://ciera.northwestern.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GC3-1-1024x679.jpg)
Credit: Newlin Weatherford, Northwestern CIERA