Jupiter and The Moon

[Jiggy 67]

Wow just looked out the back door, 21.30 on Xmas Day, and saw Jupiter really close to The Moon.......fantastic sight, anything but Jupiter would be invisible so close to The Moon....lovely sight

[perrin6]

Quite good seeing even through a lot of the cloud which is quite thin. The Great red spot is about to slip out of view and that lovely little dark 'barge' is visible in the North Equatorial Belt when the seeing steadies now and then.

[Marki]

Yes - seeing is quite nice between the clouds. Quite frustrating! Jupiter is gorgeous though. Just been turning my attention to Orion, but I keep getting drawn back to the moon and jupiter, just looking up over my telescope - they're stunning together!

At least the thin cloud makes a nice lunar filter!

Merry Christmas all!

[Matt Scunthorpe]

I had a quick look at these while testing out my new RA motor and showing the family. Wanted to show them a few open clusters etc but such streaky cloud that i could barely make out any guide stars.

[Stu]

Had a nice look at these too. Nice shadow transit going on, just about done now. Great to see the moon plus Jupiter in the same fov

Stu

[scarp15]

Yep the transit of Io made for good observing tonight, seeing whilst very good for periods lost a bit of contrast at times though, due perhaps to Jupiter's immediate proximity to the moon. However the pair together made for a fantastic spectacle.

[saveyou]

I saw it too. Pretty cool sight if you ask me!

[Mzungu]

yup I got to show some of the family. Lovely sight, and a lovely end to Christmas day...