Using a binocular, look for a very young crescent Moon this evening approximately 30 to 45 minutes after sunset. It will be to the lower right of Venus, low in the west-northwest. Comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz), as it heads southward through Canes Venatici, passes between the bright spiral galaxy M63 (the Sunflower Galaxy) and the interacting galaxies NGC 4485 and NGC 4490. The GRS transits at 04:48 a.m. EDT on Wednesday morning. Ganymede transits Jupiter from 1:46 a.m. to 4:18 a.m. EDT on Wednesday morning. Europa is occulted by Jupiter at 4:26 a.m. EDT. Io begins a transit of Jupiter at 5:50. A shadow transit by Ganymede starts at 6:38 a.m. EDT. The shadow of Io begins to cross Jupiter's disk at 7:02 a.m. EDT.
Dave Mitsky
Dave Mitsky
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