Ganymede eclipse heads-up 5/12/23

[Franklin]

Ganymede was occulted by Jupiter earlier today and at about 7.55pm will be eclipsed by Jupiter's shadow.

[Franklin]

Fascinating to watch, according to S&T interactive the eclipse began at 7.54pm. I could see Ganymede gradually fading but it was not until 8.07pm that it completely disappeared from view. Back out at 9.44pm to see the reappearance.

[John]

Sounds great 🙂

Very cloudy here, unfortunately. Hope you catch the reappearance 🙂

[Franklin]

30 minutes ago, John said:

Hope you catch the reappearance 🙂

Clear here and surprisingly quite mild, the snow went as soon as it came.

[Stu]

I’m going to start a thread called ‘What didn’t you see tonight?’ 🤪🤪

I noted the emergence of Ganymede from eclipse, popped out and was sure I was observing in time, but somehow missed it and Ganymede was already visible. Oh well, I had some decent views of GRS right on the meridian earlier on which was great.

[Franklin]

27 minutes ago, Stu said:

but somehow missed it and Ganymede was already visible.

It takes a while to become fully illuminated, almost 1/4 hr.

[dweller25]

Yes, I watched it too, a nice eclipse watch and the GRS visible too 🙂