Heads up - Jupiter 12th Sep, 19:56

[dweller25]

The GRS and the shadow of Ganymede just starting a transit will just be visible as it gets dark tonight.

I’m going to do a clear skies dance 😁

[globular]

12 minutes ago, dweller25 said:

I’m going to do a clear skies dance 😁

So that's the reason for this...?

😁

Thanks for the tip 

[John]

Lovely views here - thanks for the heads up David

Really clear and obvious black shadow - even a small scope will show this

Your dance worked !

[Paz]

Thanks for the heads up. I missed the GRS but spent an hour on the shadow transit. Really clear on the northern equatorial belt.

I even persuaded my boys to come away from the tv for a minute to have a look!

[dweller25]

I was 100% clouded out 😕

[globular]

1 minute ago, dweller25 said:

I was 100% clouded out 😕

me too 😢

7 hours ago, globular said:

So that's the reason for this...?

On the bright side ClearOutside was fairly accurate 🙂

[Dark Vader]

I had a good view between the passing clouds. I'd set up on the off chance to give my boy a look at Jupiter and Saturn, clouds permitting, before bed. Now the schools are back, he can only stay up late enough on Friday and Saturday nights.

A lot of wow moments followed as he kept running back in to tell Mrs V what he just saw, then coming back to see more. 

In the space of an hour, cloud bands on both planets, the Ganymede shadow transit and Saturn's rings with an occasional sight of the Cassini division. A good night... we're loving the views through this 200p.

Andy

[John]

Still good here. Jupiter has gone behind some trees so Saturn took over in the eyepiece for a while and now I'm on Mars.

Some of the best seeing that I've had for a while on these planets. Mars good at 225x - 300x with my ED120 refractor.