Downtown Los Alamos viewed from North Mesa with Jupiter, the brightest point in the sky – to the upper right and Saturn, the dim point to the right of Jupiter, just after sunset Monday, Dec. 21. Photo taken with an Olympus OM-1 MIII, 40-150mm lens at 40mm, f/2.8, ISO 1600 2sec. Photo by Rick Wallace

Close-up of the conjunction as it overexposes Jupiter to show two of its moons – Io to the upper left and Europa to the lower right. Photo taken with an Olympus OM-1 MIII, 300mm f/4 with MC 1.4 (840mm equivalent), f/5.6, ISO 1600 1/80s. Photo by Rick Wallace

The Unistellar telescope view greatly overexposes the planets, but shows another moon of Jupiter, Calisto to far upper right, and Saturn’s moon Titan to left of Saturn. Photo by Rick Wallace