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Old 12-10-2009, 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Glenn Dawes View Post
Hi Warren,

It was Europa's shadow, the moon closest to Jupiter at the time.

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Glenn
Thanks for the clarification was that the moon on the right while looking through the scope real close to Jupiter. I learned something great I thought that the moon also had to be in front of the Planet to leave a shadow.
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