[meteorite-list] Cub Scouts and a Star Party
cdtucson at cox.net
cdtucson at cox.net
Mon Oct 11 18:45:00 EDT 2010
Walter,
I guess I did not need to tell you I knew nothing about the stars after all. It is obvious.
My phone showed them piled one on the other and since Jupiter was bigger it seemed farther away and I had no idea what Oh was. .
Thanks to you I now know twice as much as I knew this morning about Jupiter and Uranus. . Thanks for the nice schooling.
Carl
--
Carl or Debbie Esparza
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---- Walter Branch <waltbranch at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Hello Carl,
>
> Thanks, but since the orbit of Uranus lies outside that of Jupiter, it would
> be impossible for Uranus to transit across the face of Jupiter.
>
> Uranus and Jupiter are easily in the same field of view in a small finder
> scope. With increased magnification, Uranus appears very un-starlike. It
> is disk shaped, rather than a pinpoint.
>
> I think you are confusing terms such as eclipse, occultation, transits, and
> conjunctions. What you are referring to is the conjunction of Jupiter and
> Uranus. See the table here:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjunction_(astronomy_and_astrology)#2010
>
> I have been observing Jovian transits for 40 years. This was a transit. In
> fact, my charting software, Skytools 2, indicates it was Jupiter's moon Io.
>
> For more info on transits, see here:
> http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/javascript/3307071.html
>
>
> -Walter
>
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