[AZ-Observing] Re: Europa and Ganymede last night

  • From: "AJ Crayon" <acrayon@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:41:06 -0700

Paul, seems there are goings on like those a lot now-a-days.  Need to pay 
closer attention.  BTW, did you seen any sequence of the Europa Ganymede 
close approach?

AJ Crayon
Phoenix, AZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Lind" <pulind@xxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 11:51 AM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Europa and Ganymede last night


AJ,

That's an incredible image sequence taken by Christopher Go.  It clearly has
sub-arcsecond resolution since Ganymede's apparent diameter at opposition is
only 1.7 arc-seconds.  The circular shaddow of Io is seen crossing it.
Thanks for pointing it out.  The conjunction that I saw was actually a
different one.  It was between Europa and Ganymede on Aug. 20, at 0515 AM
UT, and the spacing less than 2 Ganymede diameters.

-Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "AJ Crayon" <acrayon@xxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 9:01 AM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Europa and Ganymede last night


> Paul, there is a nice 14 image sequence of this event at
> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/observingblog/53682157.html
>
> Enjoy!
>
> AJ Crayon
> Phoenix, AZ
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Paul Lind" <pulind@xxxxx>
> To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 8:01 AM
> Subject: [AZ-Observing] Europa and Ganymede last night
>
>
> I just happened to look a jupiter last night at 9:30 while testing my
> daughter's 8" telescope.  One of the moons looked funny, so I put the 14"
> on
> it at 200x.  Europa and Ganymede were in conjunction (from our
> perspective)
> and were separated by only 2 arc-seconds. Jupiter rarely dissappoints.
> - Paul
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