A Galilean Night

Wow! Very nice! I thought it would be a picture of Galilee, though.

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the not moon bright thing is Jupiter
if you go to the full sized picture you can see two moons

I see 4. The Galilean Moons I suspect. Easily be seen with just plain ol’ 7x35mm Binocs. Although I like my 8x40mm ones better. If you have really sharp vision, and a clear, minimal turbulant sky, you should be able to see the 4 moons with the naked eye, assuming any number of the 4 moons aren’t directly in front of or behind the gas giant.

I can see a 3rd now that I’m on the PC with a better monitor. :smiley:

You can kind of see them on the one here too…very cool! :slight_smile: Nice one, Denny!

Would someone point to them, please?

perhaps browser specific toward the end…

click on the picture, this will take you to the APoD page with this picture
click on the picture, this will take you to a large copy of the picture

you may need to
click on the picture, this will disable the automatic “fit to page” sizing and give you scroll bars, etc.


oh… sorry!
two to the right and up just a bit
one to the left
one I don’t know, I can not see it on the big picture

Whoa!!! I thought they’d be closer than that! Who would have thought it?

Lovely!!! (Thanks!)

Jupiter is kinda large, eh! :smiley: