Jupiter looks wonderful tonight

[Wowbagger]

We've been out with the binoculars and the spotting scope. I can see three of Jupiter's moons in a trail to the left. With the spotting scope we can even see Uranus. Bloody marvellous!

[Fab Foodie]

Was an amazing sight driving along the M4 last night from Bristol, spookily wonderful.

[hellymedic]

It's a bit cloudy here right now but my partner made these images a few nights ago...

[Wowbagger]

We can't get that level of detail. Great seeing the moons with birdwatching kit though.

[Rhys W]

Ah, that's what Eric Clapton was on about.

[fruitcake]

Mm. Disappointing.  I was expecting a thread containing cold war spy passphrases.  Turns out you really were talking about Jupiter. 

[Oaky]

...With the spotting scope we can even see Uranus. Bloody marvellous!

No you can't! For one thing I wasn't in range and for another I stayed fully clothed the whole time.

[mattc]

We've been out with the binoculars and the spotting scope. I can see three of Jupiter's moons in a trail to the left.!

We've only got feeble binos her, but I reckon I saw the 3 moons on Sun evening. Just.

They were almost perfectly horizontal i.e. aligned with the horizon. Does that sound right?

[Jaded]

Yes but there are more than three. Should be at least 4 visible to the bino eye.

[Mr Larrington]

One’s gone missing

Aliens!

[Basil]

The boy and I counted 4 when we got the reflecter on it a couple of nights ago.

[mattc]

Yes but there are more than three. Should be at least 4 visible to the bino eye.

Ah. Ok. Thanks.

So what planet do you think we  were looking at? :⁠-⁠\

[Wowbagger]

I have no recollection of ever looking at Jupiter's moons or starting this thread. As for Oaky's anus...

[T42]

Must drag out the old Meade ETX-90 and see if I can get a camera onto it*.  Dunno if we've got the requisite batteries, though - it eats them by the half-dozen.

* Jupiter

[Jaded]

Got the Moon and Jupiter last night.

On a full size one you can just make out the cloud bands on Jupiter. I couldn't be bothered to set exposure for its moons, but they were visible using a teleconverter.

[Jaded]

Sort of ditto...

[Wowbagger]

Oh, I saw that bright wossname near the moon and thought to myself "I wonder what that is?"

[Pingu]

Snap!


IMG_6725_01 by The Pingus, on Flickr

[Pedal Castro]

Yes but there are more than three. Should be at least 4 visible to the bino eye.

Sometimes they are either behind Jupiter or directly in front in which case not visible. When I was a lad I plotted the position of the Galilean satellites over a week or two or maybe a month, it was a very long time ago.