Jupiter: GRS + Europa/shadow transit tonight

[iceman]

Hi guys.

Good time for some Jupiter viewing tonight, if you get the chance.

At around 6:30pm AEST, the GRS will be near the meridian and Europa will have also begun transitting. Europa's shadow starts transitting just after 8pm and the GRS sets at around 9pm.

Get those looking glasses out, my friends! :astron:

[ving]

sounds exciting... too bad i'll be at work :(
besides, my cough hasnt yet gone. :poke:

[atalas]

Thanks Ice !

Louie

[Striker]

I will try to have a go tonight Mike....if only I could get rid of these pesty Pommie relatives.....lol

3 weeks 16 hours and 24 minutes left till their plane leaves....but who's counting.

[h0ughy]

just use the tardis and go to a different pommy free time :rofl:

[Dennis]

Hey H0ughy

'Aint no such place - we, the POMs that is, invented the TARDIS, along with Cricket, Soccer, League, Union and the art of losing gracefully!

Cheers

Dennis

(Time and Relative Dimension in Space)

[h0ughy]

if your referring to the cricket, that is not graceful, that is hide in the closet time.

And since london won the rights for the olympics in 8 years time that means that the poms can lose in every event they like to enter :poke: :rofl: :rofl:

[robin]

Real lousy weather down here in southern coastal victoria will spell doom for any transits 2nite!! Havent had the scope out for 2 weeks now!

[vindictive666]

morning all

i went out last night and had a go at jupiter saw two of its moons quite close also saw europa but unfortunatley no luck with the shadow :( reasonable viewing at 100x mag but anything higher wasnt any good hard to focus at anything higher ?

plus i saw something else i cant explain i went and had a look in the east just below the milky way if that makes any sense (or there abouts) i saw a cluster of stars in a rough circle and just below a dark patch with one or two (that i saw) very faint stars in it and just below to the right i saw a orange star. very interesting. i was wondering what that black area could be ?

i was going to have a look at mars this morning but the curse happened a gorgeous cloud cover (mutter mutter :) )