A funny thing happened at Jupiter last night.
Since December I have enjoyed many Galilean moon events; transits and shadow transits, moon on moon n Jupiter on moon occultation's and a moon on moon eclipse. One of my favorite sights is the defined moon disc at ingress/egress.
Last night I keenly enjoyed Callisto occult Ganymede, the reduction in brightness of Ganymede was obvious, and then settled down to watch for Io reappearing from behind Jupiter.
Waiting . . waiting . . what the . . golly gosh, is that tiny faint orange star out there 1/3 to 1/2 Jupiter's diameter away . . . I'm sure that wasn't there before . . . is it a minor moon WOW?? . . .there's no space craft there, can't be that . . toooo far any ways . . . who to text to claim the discovery . . (move ova bird and ags_
) . . . its real cos its getting brighter . . . fast . . its like it's coming around Jupiter and getting closer. . . . . . aaaaah now its a disc . . . its Io !!!!
Now I have my first eclipse reappearance, n I like it!!