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Old 11-09-2009, 04:34 PM
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jupiter moon shadows

hi,

Yesterday when i was observing jupiter through my 5'' newt.
I noticed 1 dot and then later 2 dots.

Were both dots shadows or was one ganymede and the other ganymedes shadow?

And whenever i observe jupiter i can never see the GRS even though stellarium says its there.

i also did a sketch.

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Old 11-09-2009, 05:55 PM
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hi there,

I asked a similar question this morning and had some great replies. Have a look at the comments and links on the thread (in beginner's section "was there a moon shadow on jupiter last night?". Great photos and also explanation of what was seen plus some good links referred to.


In the end there was a shadow and a moon visible on the disc

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Old 11-09-2009, 06:17 PM
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Hi Orestis,

Whenever this situation arises again and you draw what you see at the eyepiece, which is a great thing to do, record the time. That is, record your local time and convert that to UTC Universal time.

To help you do that there is a terrific little application called Als Clock that you can down load from, I think, the resources section of IIS.

Having done this it is then possible to positively identify what ever features you have drawn.

Depending on the time last night you could have seen, Europa's shadow and Ganymede or Ganymede and its shadow.

If you check the solar system images forum you will see images of Jupiter from last night by Stuart and myself with Ganymede and its shadow transiting Jupiter.

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Old 11-09-2009, 07:25 PM
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Thanks jim for reference. i soon found out that it was ganymede on the surface and europa's shadow by using the jupiter 2 program that i downloaded from that link.

And by using that program today i saw callistos moon shadow about an hour ago.EST time

it was my first shadow transit.

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Old 11-09-2009, 07:29 PM
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hi trever, nice images of jupiter.yes next time i'll do that.
thanks.i think utc was 17:40
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