Jupiter show

by Craig Colvin

I just came in to describe what I saw and see that Mark had already done it for me. This is exactly how it was for me here in Almaden Valley. Europa appeared to almost be touching it's shadow and Io was clearly over it's shadow causing it to appear as a crescent. Lots of detail in the GRS and bands. Wow! Wow! Wow!

It was by far the best view of Jupiter I've had in my 14 months of observing. Lot's of detail visible and rock steady views. Seeing was excellent through the clouds. I've observed this phenomenon before where there are some thin clouds and good seeing.

I used my XT10 with a 9mm Nagler and 2x barlow (267x). The seeing deteriorated somewhat around 11:45pm but still had it's moments of steady air.

Fun!

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