Hi again Martin,
Enjoy your night, so great you were able to get others around you involved.
Show them Saturn! They will never forget their first Saturn experience!
Here are the details
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HEADS UP TONIGHT! Wednesday 9th May.
Jupiter at opposition + Europa transit + GRS transit.
Opposition is the best time to see the king of planets at its brightest and closest to Earth. Aside from Venus and the Moon it'll be the brightest object in the evening sky rising in the east.
Europa Transit - Times in AEST:
21:21 Shadow Ingress
21:22 Transit Ingress
23:31 Transit Egress
23:36 Shadow Egress
Eastern Australia will also enjoy the Great Red Spot on show. Visible from Sydney at 21:37 so approx. around then for the rest of eastern Australia.
Western Australia will get to enjoy the Great Red Spot at 19:37 WST.
For more details, open up your Astronomy Australia 2018 book (by Ken Wallace, Glenn Dawes, Peter Northfield from Quasar Publishing) to p.115 for GRS, p119 for transit, p35 for other Jupiter events. Book is available through our online shop.
Enjoy! -Suzy.
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