Interesting Jovian feature back?

Started by mad_astronomer, 01/18/2003 11:47AM
Posted 01/18/2003 11:47AM Opening Post
This morning 01/18/03 between 950 and 1000 UT what looked like the same oval feature mentioned in this thread, http://www.astromart.com/messages.asp?message_id=33164&page=2
transited the central meridian. It was best seen with a #15 yellow and #11 yellow green. 10", 290X, seeing ~5-6. The thing was maby 1/3 the length of the GRS.

Greg

"Though parted by a gulf more impassable than any sea, the telescope lets us traverse what otherwise had been barred and lands us at last above the shores we went forth to seek. Real the journey is, though incorporeal in kind. Since the seeing strange sights is the essence of all far wanderings, it is as truly tavel so the eye arrive as if the body kept it company." Pervcival Lowell
Posted 01/18/2003 12:00PM #1
I just used the central meridian calculator on Carlos' site,
http://www.arksky.org/ and it placed my feature between 153.81* and 159.85* system II.

Greg

PS look under online tools.
PPS Now I must positivly go to bead (it's 5:20 am).
PPPS I also saw Europa partially occult Io at around 1030 UT.

"Though parted by a gulf more impassable than any sea, the telescope lets us traverse what otherwise had been barred and lands us at last above the shores we went forth to seek. Real the journey is, though incorporeal in kind. Since the seeing strange sights is the essence of all far wanderings, it is as truly tavel so the eye arrive as if the body kept it company." Pervcival Lowell