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That is fascinating Allan, and what a fantastic unique achievement with 29 moons.
Steve - please let us know how you go with chasing the moons.
After having a camera pretty much permanently attached to the back of my telescopes for about a decade, carefully looking through an eyepiece it's a completely new territory to me.
Tonight I set up before the sunset and was already watching both gas giants as the sun was setting. At 6.45 pm I ticked off the 5 moons of Saturn again, this time the order of increasing difficulty was: Titan, Rhea, Dione, Iapetus (much easier to see tonight, relatively speaking), and lastly, although it took a bit more trying until the skies darkened and also a few Saturn's passes through the fov, that I could finally confidently see Tethys.
As I waited for the skies darken to hopefully find Tethys, I tried to spot Ganymede's transit but could only see the moon at the end of transit as it started emerging at the side of the planet. Perhaps need a bit more eye (s)training to see one of the four in front of Jupiter.
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