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Jupiter and Mercury
Published on 15 Mar 2011 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 15th March 2011
Jupiter (Upper right) and Mercury (Lower left)
I had a clear western sky last night at 18:45 / 6.45pm that I see Mercury (on the right) has moved upper to close Jupiter that it has showed to compare I saw last Monday 14th. (See photo of Monday 14th.)
Hopefully tonight after 18:00 / 6pm [...]
Jupiter and Mercury
Published on 14 Mar 2011 at 00:00.
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Monday 14th March 2011
The image showed below that you could find it tonight.
Jupiter (Upper left) and Mercury (Lower right)
The image was captured by Derek Rowley, Milton Keynes, UK at 18:30 / 6.30pm.
Jupiter & Mercury
Published on 12 Mar 2011 at 00:00.
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Saturday 12th March 2011
Mercury passes Jupiter in bright twilight around March 15th.
Mercury
This month (March 2011) is your best chance to spot Mercury all year, because Mercury reaches the highest sky and longest evening apparition.
Plus the best this week
Mercury in the evening west to spend the week from Saturday 12th March 2011 to Friday 18th March [...]
Moon and Jupiter
Published on 7 Feb 2011 at 18:04.
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Monday 7th February 2011
Click here for enlarge image – Jupiter 6 degrees from Crescent Moon tonight. The photo was captured by Derekscope (Derek Rowley).
Great Red Spot
Published on 30 Nov 2010 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 30th November 2010
Great Red Spot
Make sure the GRS is visible. The spot rotates, more or less, as Jupiter rotates. So every 10 hours the spot makes a full rotation around the visible disk of the planet. You’ll get your best chance of seeing the Red Spot as it crosses the central meridian… the imaginary [...]
Return of Jupiter’s lost belt
Published on 23 Nov 2010 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 23rd November 2010
Click here for enlarge image by Brian Combs of Buena Vista of Georgia, that seeing was excellent on Sunday 21st November, 2010 when this image was taken showing the multiple outbreaks in the return of Jupiter’s lost SEB – the South Equatorial Belt (Derekscope’s archived :- Friday 12th November 2010).
At least three [...]
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South Equatorial Belt is back?
Published on 12 Nov 2010 at 00:00.
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Friday 12th November 2011
Jupiter’s missing stripe (SEB), returning?
Earlier this year when Jupiter’s great South Equatorial Belt (SEB) vanished, researchers urged amateur astronomers to be alert for its eventual return. The SEB had come and gone before, they noted, and the revival was something to behold. Alert: It might be happening now. An energetic white plume [...]
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Double shadow on Jupiter
Published on 23 Oct 2010 at 00:00.
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Saturday 23rd October 2010
Double shadow on Jupiter & Io disappears.
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Finding Jupiter is easy enough. Look at the East and upward in mid-evening to find the brilliant planet – it’s the brightest object in the night sky except for the Moon.
While you can follow the continuous movements of Europa and Ganymede (along [...]
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Io’ shadow
Published on 11 Oct 2010 at 00:00.
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Monday 11th October 2010
Last night I caught in the act last night at 20:27 / 8.27pm that volcanic moon – Io disappeared in the front of Jupiter and at 22:00 / 10pm its shadow (black dot) was seen here against Jupiter’s cloud (surface) by my telescope at my backyard garden in Milton Keynes.
Io’s shadow is [...]
Two planets at opposition
Published on 21 Sep 2010 at 00:00.
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Tuesday 21st September 2010
For planets outside the Earth’s orbit, like Jupiter and Uranus, last night and tonight around Oppositions are the best time to observe these planets.
An opposition happens when the planet is opposite from the Sun relative to the Earth. At Opposition the planet will rise as the Sun sets and will set as [...]
