{"id":117211,"date":"2020-12-16T17:22:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/how-to-watch-the-jupiter-and-saturn-great-conjunction-of-2020"},"modified":"2020-12-16T17:22:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T01:22:55","slug":"how-to-watch-the-jupiter-and-saturn-great-conjunction-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/how-to-watch-the-jupiter-and-saturn-great-conjunction-of-2020","title":{"rendered":"How to watch the Jupiter and Saturn \u2018great conjunction\u2019 of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-watch-the-jupiter-and-saturn-great-conjunction-of-2020.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a tip.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>On the 21 December solstice, the planets will look like one brilliant star as Jupiter\u2019s and Saturn\u2019s 12-and 29-year orbits bring them together. The last great conjunction was in May 2000, but its position in the sky meant it was difficult to see. The great conjunction of 1623 (when Galileo Galilei was still alive) was also hard to spot because, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.perthobservatory.com.au\/astronomical-event\/the-great-conjunction\">Perth Observatory<\/a> explains, it appeared close enough to the sun that it would have been \u201clost in the sun\u2019s glare\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d have to go all the way back to just before dawn on 4 March 1226 to see a closer alignment between these objects visible in the night sky,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.rice.edu\/2020\/11\/19\/christmas-week-worlds-will-align-for-spectacular-heavenly-sight-2\/\">according to<\/a> Patrick Hartigan, an astronomer from Rice University in Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a tip. On the 21 December solstice, the planets will look like one brilliant star as Jupiter\u2019s and Saturn\u2019s 12-and 29-year orbits bring them together. The last great conjunction was in May 2000, but its position in the sky meant it was difficult to see. The great conjunction of 1623 (when Galileo Galilei was [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}