Ganymede?

[Trillian]

Hi,

I have been waiting patiently for the chance to see Jupiter and I had a very brief opportunity to view it on wed night/thurs morn 12.15am. Knowing that Uranus was in the same vacinity I tried to find it. I only had opportunity to use my 10x50 binos and what I saw looked just like a star. It was not visible with the naked eye and was at 7o'clock (I haven't worked out degrees etc yet!!). It clouded over pretty quickly so I put Stellarium on and tried to check whether what I had seen was Uranus but it appears that Uranus should have been to the right of Jupiter and it occured to me from 'zooming in' on Jupiter that it could have been Ganymede. I'm not sure they should appear through binos. Should I even be able to see them at all through 10x50's. Any ideas/advice?

[abumuhannadh]

all of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter would be easy with a 10x50.

compared to the moons, Uranus is far away from Jupiter, the moons will be very close to Jupiter viewed thru a 10x50.

[richbyers]

Yes you can see the four moons with good binos, however uranus would appear as a star, it still does through my 5inch scope

rich