2022: 66 Sessions - Some Highlights

[cloudsweeper]

Jupiter’s moons just touching the disc:

# Ganymede going from “contact” to “pimple” then disappearing behind the planet all in 13 minutes. A fascinating, dynamic system!

# Io “kissing” the SEB and casting a shadow on it.

# Io and Callisto in contact with the disc at the same time – Io at the side, Callisto at the top.

Long spiky shadows on the Moon:

# 16 mile shadow from Mount Pico in M. Imbrium.

# 34 mile shadow from Plato’s rim to near its centre.

# 40 mile shadow from Walther’s central peak to the western rim. The longest one so far.

Asteroid Juno - 12^th in size order. Needed AV and higher mag to increase contrast. My fourth asteroid.

14 Ari – one of the nicest doubles of the year. A A bright primary, with a close and matched 8^th mag pair well separated from the primary, all in an attractive field. Wide doubles at low magnification can be most appealing.

I wish all my fellow SGL members many new, interesting, and unexpected observations in 2023!

Doug.