this might be the post for you,
depending on where you are, or where you are willing to
travel, you can take in two spectacular solar eclipses (one during a solstice)
and four lunar eclipses in 2020. But what's a "real solstice appulse"? here’s something that’s not happened since the year 2000, and
won’t happen again until 2040. On December 21, 2020—the exact date of the
solstice—Saturn and Jupiter will appear incredibly close together (just 0.06ยบ
apart) right after sunset. Astronomer’s call this an “appulse”or a “great
conjunction.” It will all be a matter of perspective; Jupiter and Saturn will
actually be 733 million miles from each other, as well as being 887 million
miles and 1620 million miles from Earth, respectively. However, from Earth, the
giant gas planets will appear almost as one, the schedule for stargazing in 2020 is at Forbes, happy stargazing!
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