Mike's transit animation reminded me of severla Jovian satellite alignments that I have attempted to observed over the last few months.
There is an was interesting alignment early this morning at 00:36. Jupiter and its four moons appeared as the figure attached. The four moons were very close to Jupiter, and Europa was transiting across the disk. Also Io and Callistro were above each other by about 0.8 Jovian diameters from the main planets disk.
Did anyone else see this?
The best event was on the 13th March at 09:24, with was invisible due to weather and Jupiter's position. This had, Io, Europa and Callisto in a vertical line above each other. The positions were as in the second Figure attached
Sadly, there are no other conjuctions like this for a little while.
Jup is never boring is it.
When I only had my ebay 60mm refractor, at the beginning of an observing session, I'd sketch where the moons were. After spending an hour or so on DSO's, I'd come back and see how far the moons had moved.
Good fun.
I tried capturing Ganymede, Europa and Callisto in the same field (away from Jupiter) last week but only ganymede and Europa fit in the 640x480 FOV of the webcam.
I caught the triple transit on Friday morning with Io coming out from behind Jupiter, and Ganymede and Europa in transit. Still processing!
I saw Io Europa Ganymeade and Callisto all trailing Jupiter within the fov of my 12mm EP thursday morning last week. it was very very cool indeed. Altho i am not sure if they were actually in that order.....still its very very mesmurising to watch. made my day thats for sure.
