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I have a couple of friends who are keen amateur astronomers and have large telescopes. They are telling me that at the moment the Great Red Spot is doing odd things like throwing off streamers into adjacent atmospheric bands. Nothing you can see with binoculars, but worth googling the latest images.

John L

On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 07:52 Nick Payne <> wrote:

Jupiter is in opposition at the moment (closest approach to the Earth is today). When I was young I was interested in astronomy, and a friend of my parents back in Perth in the 1960s had exceptionally good eyesight - when Jupiter was in opposition she could see the Galilean moons with the naked eye. If I was out in the backyard with a pair of binoculars, with no visual aids she could tell me where each moon was - closest moon at five o'clock, another one further out at eight o'clock, etc.

Nick Payne

On 12/06/2019 9:26 am, Geoffrey Dabb wrote:

On the evening dog walk on Rocky Knob I came across a man with a camera waiting to photograph Jupiter which had just appeared to the south-east in the pale sky, resembling the lights of an aircraft frozen on its approach to Canberra Airport.  He said it was unusually close.  So alerted, I took a photo myself later.  Four moons are visible, as they are through binoculars.

 

 

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