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10 years 7 months ago #100538 by flt158
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I didn't think it was going to be getting clear tonight (Easter Monday). But I did have a 30 minute look at Jupiter and easily saw Ganymede's shadow. It was the only shadow I had not seen this season so I was delighted to make the complete set. The shadow was the South Tropical Zone.
Also I could make a very small white oval in the south equatorial belt. I was using 225X.

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10 years 7 months ago - 10 years 7 months ago #100540 by dave_lillis
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Hi Aubrey,
I'm currently out looking at Jupiter and right now there are no shadow transits unfortunately, but there is a very cool arrow formation with the 4 moons, with Jupiter on the arrow. Well done on catching the Ganymede shadow transit,
Not a massive amount of disk detail is visible as its really starting to set now.

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10 years 7 months ago #100541 by flt158
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Hi Dave. Ganymede's shadow came off Jupiter at 22.32. Europa is about to pass in front of Jupiter.

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10 years 7 months ago - 10 years 7 months ago #100542 by dave_lillis
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P.S. and not to hijack your thread, if you can go back outside and look at Mars, then you'll see syrtis major dead center of the planet, its very obvious and the 2 polar caps are blindingly obvious, the best I've seen this planet in years,
Having a look now at 300x using my 12" SCT, (15mm ep + 1.5x binoviewer)

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10 years 7 months ago #100543 by dave_lillis
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Thanks Aubrey, I'll now be slewing back to Jupiter in a few mins :)

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10 years 7 months ago #100550 by flt158
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Good man, Dave. I did observe very well Syrtis Major and the North Polar Cap on Good Friday night. I went up to 280X. Unfortunately the "south polar cap" is the highland Hellas. The South Polar Cap is not visible. It is behind Mars. And I hadn't seen Syrtis Major since 2003!

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