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[Andrew Cooper <acooper@xxxxxxxxx>]

Very pretty!  I had noticed the position of the Moon and Jupiter 
yesterday while doing a public star party at the Mason Audubon Center.  
The thought had occured to me that today would be a good time to look 
for Jupiter in the daytime.  Sure enough, late this afternoon Jupiter 
was easily visible just a couple degrees east of the Moon.  The roughly 
90 degree separation from Jupiter to the Sun is about perfect for a late 
afternoon attempt at a daytime Jupiter sighting.

Tomorrow Jupiter will be about 10.6 degrees west of the Moon along the 
ecliptic around 6:30pm.

Andrew

Andrew Cooper
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Tom Polakis wrote:

>It's worth stepping outside to look at a nice pairing of the moon and
>Jupiter tonight.  It's even worth setting up a small telescope to look at
>them.  They look great at 24x in the Pronto.  Jupiter shows a pair of moons
>on either side, and the moon phase brings out a lot of craters in the same
>view.
>
>Tom
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