[AZ-Observing] Re: Vekol Observing Report

Obviously? I couldn't figure out what the heck that strange feature on
Jupiter was. The seeing at Flat Iron was somewhat turbulent with some brief
steadying at times. We watched the shadow of Io progress and outstrip the
weird black hole and surrounding gouge on the dark NEB while ruling out one
thing after another of what it could be (including the Monolith).

Jack Jones



Chris said:
> Right as we started viewing, with the Binoviewer at 400x+, Io was a few
> minutes into a shadow transit, a nice black bead heading straight  down
> the
> SEB (with the GRS just a number of minutes from rotating out of view on
> the
> other end of the SEB).  Interestingly, there was a dark brown, round, oval
> precisely across on the NEB that looked very much like a second transit
> (thought the brown obviously gave it away).  Good detail.  The other moons
> showed as nice round disks.  Before wrapping up at the end of the night,
> Europa began a transit, we watched as the white disk began traversing
> nearly
> the same path as Io earlier (I packed it in just before the shadow joined
> it).
> 
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