GRS TRANSIT plus Europa SHADOW TRANSIT - SATURDAY 9.15PM

[paulastro]

As above, only ten minutes after sunset, but need to allow time to locate it in a fairly bright sky. 

 

Below is a link for August Jupiter phenomena from Ade Ashford, there is an excellent illustration of Saturday evenings event - well worth the effort.

 

https://astronomynow.com/2019/07/31/more-jupiter-events-to-enjoy-in-august-2019/

 

Good luck!!

 

[Nigella Bryant]

Thanks for the heads up. 

[Pete Presland]

They do look very nicely positioned, especially with the GRS looking central as well in the illustration.

[russ]

Thanks for the heads up. Very handy.

Plus I now know what all the cloudy nights for August will be. Lol

[paulastro]

Mmm, just looked at Accuweather for Oakworth tonight :

 

Looking Ahead

Showers and thunderstorms around late on Saturday afternoon until Sunday evening: storms could cause flash flooding.

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Yes, it's 100% cloudy so they could be right .  I hope it's clear for someone out there.  If it is and someone manages to get a pic, it would be nice to see it posted up here.

[Stu]

I spotted a few breaks in the cloud at around 9.30 last night so popped the Tak out on the Ercole for a quick session. GRS was very obvious to start with at low power, and when I upped it to around x150 I caught the shadow transit sitting up towards the Northern polar region. It was a very brief moment though, there was patchy cloud around which caused bad seeing so I lost the shadow after only around a minute or so. GRS stayed visible but I packed up after about 20 mins as it was pretty poor. At least I saw it I guess.

[paulastro]

Well done Stu, I'm delighted you managed to see it .