Listen to this song

 On the same location of this post. I took the video of two tailed sparrow. It was wonderful blue hour time to capture it near the lake side. 

Beautiful evening......

 It was around evening when I found myself caught in a surreal moment near the lake.— everything seemed perfectly aligned. The rainbow, the cloudy blue hour, the lake, and a shepherd with his sheep all came together beautifully. I felt compelled to capture it, and I did. So far, this is one of my favorite images. The rainbow adds a touch of drama to the scene and reflects the essence of the countryside.

The Great Conjunction

                                      

What is the great conjunction?
                   The conjunction between the two planets Jupiter and Saturn typically occurs once every 20 years, but the "great conjunction" is a much rarer event that happened after nearly 400 years(source). During a conjunction, Jupiter and Saturn appear to move closer to each other in the sky as they approach the same point in their orbits. This event can be seen with the naked eye, and we can observe the planets even more closely with a telescope.

 How did I capture this? 

                   It was the evening of December 21, 2020, and I was very keen to capture the great conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Saturn in the western sky. The horizon began to turn red, and the clouds were moving toward the northern sky. Time was ticking, and I was checking my gear to make sure everything was perfect and set to go because even a single mistake would make me wait another 800 years to capture this event again. As everyone knows, it is not possible to live for 800 years unless you are a Titan. 

                   The time was around 5:45 PM, and I started to set up my tripod to fix the camera on it. Unfortunately, it didn't work out well, so I had to remove the camera from it and go handheld because the planets were approaching the western sky very fast, and it was hard to capture them with the tripod. So, I decided to abandon the tripod idea and go handheld, which is more flexible. As the planets approached the horizon, clouds started rolling in near the area where the conjunction was happening, but luckily it only lasted a few minutes. I started taking pictures of it, and it felt amazing because it was the time that I started showing some interest in astrophotography. Within a few months, I got this opportunity, and people who have an interest in this genre know this better.

                   After taking the picture, I went back to my home, opened Lightroom, imported the images, and I got terrified. Why? Because the planets were barely visible. They were unclear and too small to see, even after coming close to each other. I felt disappointed, so I decided to look on the internet for other people's work on this event. And guess what? Except for the ones who took it with a large telescope, the images looked exactly like mine, which made me feel good.

                  I completed my little editing on this and I got the image. It felt amazing to have a picture that is only possible to capture after 800 years. Hopefully, these type of rare events in the sky is happening each and every year if not year atleast decade.

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Ramanan A