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Old 02-06-2020, 11:18 AM
Saturnine (Jeff)
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Jupiters Moons

Hi All

Hope this is the correct area to post this info. For those of us that like planetary observing and imaging there are a few interesting events in the next few days.
On the evening of the 4th , into the morning of the 5th, so this Thursday, there will be a double shadow transit, beginning just after Jupiter rises, from an east coast perspective, would be better from NZ.
Times are for EST, taken from Astronomy 2020, Quasar Publishing.

20:34 Ganymede Shadow Ingress
21:20 Europa Shadow Ingress
23:05 Europa Transit Ingress
23:50 Ganymede Shadow Egress
00:06 Europa Shadow Egress
00:09 Ganymede Transit Ingress
01:52 Europa Transit Egress
03:30 Ganymede Transit Egress

Add in the Red Spot on the CM at 00:38am on the 5th.
Should be quite an interesting show for several hours, guaranteed to be cloudy and or crap seeing for sure.
The BOM weather forecast for this area is actually favourable and CFN, although showing low cloud off the coast also shows the jetstream as fairly quiet. So it may be a good nights entertainment after all.
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