I guess a number of us may have been set up for the rare-ish alignment of 4 moons in transit across the face of Jupiter last night after midnight (ie this morning).
However the clouds did not play nice over suburban Adelaide.
Nor did the seeing towards midnight.
Nor did my mount (does anyone have a spare CGEM motor lying around?!)
My main capture was the moons closing in to Jupiter around 11pm (12:26 UT).
From L-R the image shows Europa, Ganymede, Callisto transit, Callisto shadow transit next to the GRS, and Io out on far right.
With averted imagination, some detail might be present on Ganymede.
Taken via C11, 2x barlow, and ASI290MC.
You should be so lucky to be one of the few that managed to see this.
Melbourne was clouded over for as long as I could stay up for!
Very nice capture of the rare event even though the conditions didn't assist very much. Murphy's law every time...
Thanks Anthony, Dennis and Andrew for your comments.
I first heard the phrase 'averted imagination' some years ago when trying to eyeball the horsehead.
Someone said "look for nothing superimposed on almost nothing, best seen via averted imagination."
