What time did GRS appear / disappear last night?

[great_bear]

...since Stellarium doesn't seem to match reality...

Anyone know?

[Dave Smith]

It crossed the central meridian at 00:46 BST and would be viewable nearly 2 hours before and after that. See my post about this at

http://stargazerslounge.com/equipment-reviews/112818-predicting-jupiter-saturn-events-e-g-grs-transits-moons.html

I don't use Stellarium but if you can change the longitude of the GRS to 150 it should then work OK. Presumably the moons were where it predicted them to be.

Dave

[great_bear]

Hi Dave,

That's what I saw. Since last night was my first encounter with the thing I wanted to make sure it was Stellarium that was wrong and I wasn't imagining things.

Your comment prompted me to do a search, and sure enough it's a bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/stellarium/+bug/490019

[Dave Smith]

I'm pleased that is sorted.

Dave