Great captures, Nasos! You got them both in the same frame, and Saturn's rings visible so that is certainly a win. Also a very nice wide capture, showing the closeness of the planets.
I clouded over here on the December 21 and the following days, but I had my the hopes up for a Christmas Eve capture. I set up the tracker early at the previous location, and hoped some early IR captures could detect it early by darkening the sky. But no planets showed up.
#1
I waited and waited, but the only thing that caught my attention was cloud formation like one of the Dementors out of a Harry Potter movie.
#2
(Visible light capture)
Had the dementor hidden the planets?
Then suddenly, the planets dived out from below a dark cloud, hardly visible to the eye.
#3
(55mm f/3.5 on D500, cropped to about 2/3 of the frame)
I got very busy quickly re-aiming the 300mm with stacked converters and AW1 towards Jupiter and Saturn before they disappeared. However at only 1.5° altidude I knew it was a long shot to get any resolution out of it shooting through this much atmosphere. Autostakkert did not want to deal with two targets, and most were too blurry, so I ended up just editing the best frame in CNX2. One of Jupiter's moons, likely Ganymede shows up faintly to the right of the planet:
#4
(840mm on AW1, 0.8 s at f/11, tracked exposure, slight crop)
By the time I quickly switched to the D500 to increase exposure beyond what the AW1 was capable of (it was that faint), Saturn was already diving into the dark clouds below.
#5
(840mm on D500, 0.5s /f11, tracked exposure)
A bonus was that while waiting, there was a clear view to Mars high in the sky from the location, so I got to use the waiting time to extend my series with another stack showing the shrinking appearance as Mars moves away from us.
#6
(all but the first, 300mm with stacked 1.4x and 2.x converters on AW1, stacked exposures)
