FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: Jupiter tonight (Thursday)

["Stanley A. Gorodenski" <stan_gorodenski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm sorry to hear the sky did not cooperate at your site and that you 
did not get the pictures you wanted.
Stan

Jeff Hopkins wrote:

>I'm glad some folks had success last night. From the west side of 
>Phoenix, it was very frustrating. It was clear up to about 10:00 PM 
>MST. Then clouds drifted in and seem to build right over Jupiter. I 
>gave up at 10:45 never having seen Jupiter again since 10:00.
>
>Jeff
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>At 00:46 -0700 6/10/05, Stanley A. Gorodenski wrote:
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>>Tom Polakis wrote:
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>>>At 03:16 PM 6/9/2005 -0700, Jeff Hopkins wrote:
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>>>>Don't miss a very nice double shadow transit of Io and Europa tonight.
>>>>Starting 0530 UT (10.30 pm local time ) and running for two hours, with Io
>>>>shadow starting behind Europa and overtaking it, passing closely.
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>>>Thanks for letting us know, Jeff.  Looks real good in the 70mm Pronto
>>>pushed all the way to 330x.
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>>>Tom
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>>It cleared off for some viewing. The seeing was not very good, but I was
>>able to distinctly see the two shodows very close to each other, really
>>neat, and the re-emergence of one of the moons, IO(?), somewhere around
>>11:30.
>>Stan
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