That Jupiter Show

I've really been enjoying Jupiter this season. With the Moon's orbital plane edge on to the earth all kinds of neat stuff happens. For example, did anyone here in the eastern time zone in the US happen to see a moon reemerge from Jupiter's shadow at around, according to my cell phone, 10:51 PM (I'm in southwest Ohio)? I at first noticed it about 15 arc seconds off of Jupiter's limb and thought it was a dim star that Jupiter had occulted. However at high power I quickly saw the gibbous nature of the disk and watched it over the next few minutes grow from a smile to a bright disk. Major cool 8) and caught the event quite by accident.

Jeff

Jupiter has indeed been tremendous this time around.

Another really cool event was Thursday evening when Io crossed Jupiter. I watched as Io slowly came closer and closer. Finally I could see the white dot touch the planet then begin floating across. It gave me goosebumps!

Bill