This is Saturn and Jupiter along with its moons as they appeared December 20, 2020:
Saturn is at the upper-left and Jupiter and three of its moons are at teh lower-right of the image.
December 21 – Night of Closest Approach
This is how the planets appeared on December 21, 2020 at their closest approach:
This image is over-exposed yet you can see Jupiter’s moons and the planets’ relative positions.
This is a view from another remote telescope where the planets are not over-exposed, yet the moons are not visible:
Both planets have not been in alignment like this at night since the year 1226. The alignment happened after that year in 1623, but that was during the daytime.
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