Europa begins transit

[John]

I've viewing Jupiter just now and it's moon Europa has just begun it's transit of the disk and is looking very white and clear against the south equatorial belt. Nice sight

[Fatrick]

Im just after packing up there now. Got out for about 30mins before the clouds and then drizzle started. Got a good view of Jupiter for about 10mins tho. Never noticed the beginning of the transit tho

[cotterless45]

Got an hour in, just started watching Europa, looked behind me and clouds !

Nick.

[ronl]

Had an hour or so tonight, but last night was clear all night, and about time too,

observed the transit of Ganymede, the shadow stands out so well, and the seeing

was not to bad at all, but tonight was not to good, so I observed the Moon, enjoyable

though.

[stolenfeather]

Sounds like you are having a great night!  I wanted to go out tonight but it looks like the clouds have another idea. 

Isabelle

[bish]

I've been following it but there is a lot of cloud passing. Didn't realise it was due, just happened to put my scope out and saw Europa was very close to the limb about 19:30. By around 20:45 the shadow was fairly central.

[NoSiriusly]

I've just seen that too. Didn't realise what was happening until I confirmed it with Stellarium. Awesome sight.

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[bish]

Have to revise my post above. The shadow became visible just some time after 21:00, and was about a quarter the way across the disc by 21:30. What I saw earlier was a dark patch on the belt, which with poor seeing and being a brief glimpse I mistook for the shadow. Seeing has been excellent for the past hour or so and the sky clear. Great sight.

[Telescope40]

Hi Guys.  Been viewing the same. Bit wobbly on the atmosphere front near me. Watched shadow transit and saw Europa pop out again bout 22.20.  Not a bad nite at all.

Getting some good detail in fits and starts only.

First trip out in a week or two, so thankful for small mercy's.  Good stuff !!!!!

[Johnny4365]

I had a look at Jupiter tonight, thought it might have been the GRS I was looking at. Did seem a bit small and round to be the GRS though. So it did cross my mind that maybe it was a transit.

Good seeing tonight between clouds, a bit windy though.

[John]

The moons shadows are easy enough to see against the disk but I find the disks of the moons themselves as they transit somewhat harder to pick out. At the beginning and end of their transits, when they are near the limbs of the planet, they seem to me to be easier to see because the contrast of the planets surface seems to darken near the limbs so the moons disks stand out more.

[Johnny4365]

Oh! So was I looking at Europa's shadow and not Europa itself tonight ?

It looked like a darkish spot on the top edge of the upper equatorial belt. (if that makes sense).

[faulksy]

viewed the shadow myself tonight with my dob, cant believe it but i barlowed my 6mm delos to give me 533x and the view was perfect the shadow looked great, just had to try it lol, cloudy now though

[Jules Tohpipi]

It was a clear night here so was able to watch the transit. GRP appeared before midnight, too. No clouds but seeing not fantastic either.

First decent session with my recently acquired SW250px Goto DOB.

[Dan Hampshire]

Greetings

As a rookie I was delighted to get a clear night in Hampshire and see Jupiter through my 8" DOB and 5mm EP (lots of nudging).

Very, very clear and steady from here.  But it was only after the event that what I'd thought was eyepiece dirt turned out to have been Europa!!

So by the time I took some photos the main event was over... 

I confirmed afterwards using Solarwalk iOS app that it was Europa - and this then set me to predict more transits.

But of course the weather is awful for the rest of this week - especially tomorrow when there's two moons transiting simultaneously around 8pm.  Damn.

Best night with my 'scope yet.