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[Andrew Cooper <acooper@xxxxxxxxx>]

Just took another look myself a few minutes before sunset.  Had a little 
trouble finding it, I was looking too low, to the west of the Moon and 
it is quite a bit higher as well as west.  Once I found it it was fairly 
easy, without the aid of a polarizer.  I did try the polarizer and that 
did make it even easier.  The sky over Tucson is currently cloudless.

Andrew

Andrew Cooper
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Joe Orman wrote:

>I also took a look in daylight.  With the less-than-perfectly-clear sky and my 
>less-than-perfect vision, it was difficult -- Jupiter kept going in and out of 
>visibility.  Then I tried Tom's technique of looking through a polarizing 
>filter, which helped greatly (the roughly 90 degree separation also meant that 
>Jupiter and the moon fell right in the band of maximum polarization).
> 
>--Joe Orman
> 
>Andrew Cooper  wrote:
>
>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.
>
>  
>
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