Jupiter and the Galilean moons.

[maw lod qan]

My third morning in a row of good viewing at my daughters.

It was hard getting out of bed at 3:30 after staying up to 10:30 with all the graduation celebration. But I forced myself.

Again, the first target had to be Jupiter. Yesterday, the four moons were spaced out two to the right and two to the left. This morning there were only three visible!

After a few moments, I moved on to Saturn, then the Moon.

With it clear, I found Andromeda but could only make out the core with the Moon still very bright.

After doing some imaging, I viewed Saturn then Jupiter again before packing up. Jupiter was just about to disappear behind a close line of trees.

To my surprise, there were all four moons!

The one that had been the closest was now almost touching Jupiter and the fourth was just beginning to appear from behind it!

I got  poor image in which I can just barely make those two out before the trees took it away from me.

My first chance to witness one reappear like this.

Edited May 25, 2019 by maw lod qan

[mark81]

Very well done for getting up at 3.30!  I'm just going to wait for the weeks to slip by so I can view Jupiter at a decent hour.  

Also very nice to see one of the Moon's reappear!  I am hoping to see a couple of shadow transits this year if possible with my 80mm.

Nice report

[Sunshine]

Hard to get up so early, especially considering you went to bed at 10:30, nice report, i have never regretted getting up at insane hours to catch a glimpse of a target.

[ronl]

Good report, it's, as you know, not easy getting up in the middle of the night, 

but when you get a a good session in, then it makes it a lot easier the next time.

Keep enjoying, the weather over here is not very good at the moment, but the forecast

for next week is looking good.

Clear Sky's.