It was a beautiful clear night on Friday night (technically Saturday morning) the 28th of April and it was time to drag Dobby out to the front step.
The moon was a bright gibbous, so a quick look for some globular clusters in Scorpius was fruitless. Not that I spent much time, it was cool and I was a bit tired.
Jupiter was well worth the time though, and provided an amazing view of clear bands and a positive sighting of the GRS almost exactly at the middle of its transit across the face of the planet.
I snapped a couple of quick shots with my mobile, which as usual over-expose the planet, but show the disc and moons nicely.
Also attached is an image from the Juno Moons app showing the simulation of what I was looking at.
The moon was a bright gibbous, so a quick look for some globular clusters in Scorpius was fruitless. Not that I spent much time, it was cool and I was a bit tired.
Jupiter was well worth the time though, and provided an amazing view of clear bands and a positive sighting of the GRS almost exactly at the middle of its transit across the face of the planet.
I snapped a couple of quick shots with my mobile, which as usual over-expose the planet, but show the disc and moons nicely.
Also attached is an image from the Juno Moons app showing the simulation of what I was looking at.
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