[AZ-Observing] Re: Jupiter tonight (Thursday)
- From: Jeff Hopkins <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 11:57:42 -0700
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
At 00:46 -0700 6/10/05, Stanley A. Gorodenski wrote:
>Tom Polakis wrote:
>>At 03:16 PM 6/9/2005 -0700, Jeff Hopkins wrote:
>>>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.
>>>
>>Thanks for letting us know, Jeff. Looks real good in the 70mm Pronto
>>pushed all the way to 330x.
>>
>>Tom
>
>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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