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HellsBells said:
Jupiter looks bloody brilliant tonight. If you have clear skies, look at the moon and see the bright star to the left of it.

Put the telescope out in the garden and showed the boys - they were dead chuffed. Jupiter is J’s favourite because it starts with the same letter as his name. You can very clearly see two moons (not sure which ones?) and I can just make out some bands on Jupiter.

Also took a look at the moon - very clear and can see loads of detail and craters.

Think Santa might bring a better telescope 🤞🏻🤞🏻
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It might be Calisto and Ganymede you can see, though Europa is very close to Ganymede.

Sky at night had a good article as there are a few transits of the moons and with a bigger telescope you should be able to see the shadow of one at the minute:
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Or for the general positions of where they will appear night after night:
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An alternate is to install Stellarium and zoom in on Jupiter. That should always be a good match of what you can see each night.

It is a bit cloudy here but set to be better tomorrow.
 

HellsBells said:
Jupiter looks bloody brilliant tonight. If you have clear skies, look at the moon and see the bright star to the left of it.

Put the telescope out in the garden and showed the boys - they were dead chuffed. Jupiter is J’s favourite because it starts with the same letter as his name. You can very clearly see two moons (not sure which ones?) and I can just make out some bands on Jupiter.

Also took a look at the moon - very clear and can see loads of detail and craters.

Think Santa might bring a better telescope 🤞🏻🤞🏻
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As a belated birthday present Mrs TKR took me to the Perth Observatory on Sunday just gone. I had a great time there.
Got to see Saturn and Jupiter. There were three moons on show for us, which the astronomer said were Io, Europa and Ganymede. Also got to see our own moon as well. The last thing we saw was the Sculptor galaxy which they said was 13 million light years away.
It was a fantastic birthday present. The universe is truly awesome.
 
DaveH said:
It might be Calisto and Ganymede you can see, though Europa is very close to Ganymede.

Sky at night had a good article as there are a few transits of the moons and with a bigger telescope you should be able to see the shadow of one at the minute:
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Or for the general positions of where they will appear night after night:
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An alternate is to install Stellarium and zoom in on Jupiter. That should always be a good match of what you can see each night.

It is a bit cloudy here but set to be better tomorrow.
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Brilliant thanks for that. Looks like it was Calisto and Ganymede we could see.

I only have a pretty basic scope so I can’t see much but it’s still fun.
 
Watched this today. Cracking insight and beautifully directed documentary on the Apollo 17 mission. Whilst the Apollo 11 lads get many of the headlines, 17 was the most fascinating for me due to the camaraderie between the astronauts, the distance travelled in the Rover and the superior quality of the footage returned.

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MunkyHeed said:
Watched this today. Cracking insight and beautifully directed documentary on the Apollo 17 mission. Whilst the Apollo 11 lads get many of the headlines, 17 was the most fascinating for me due to the camaraderie between the astronauts, the distance travelled in the Rover and the superior quality of the footage returned.

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If podcasts are also your thing, this is a good listen

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