[Chaos-l] Io and Ganymede to cast shadows in transit on Jupiter tonight

Tony Rice rtphokie at gmail.com
Mon Jan 24 09:19:53 EST 2011


http://www.space.com/10665-jupiter-moon-crossing-skywatching-tips.html

Locally, sunset is around 5:30 tonight and civil twilight ends around
6pm.  Weather looks promising as well.

6:51 p.m. EST Io will begin a transit in front of Jupiter’s disk
7:04 p.m. EST Ganymede will also begin a transit of Jupiter
7:58 p.m. EST Io's shadow will begin to cross Jupiter’s face
9:05 p.m. EST Io will end its transit
10:07 p.m. EST Ganymede will complete its transit
10:10 p.m. EST Io's shadow will end its transit
11:45 p.m. EST Ganymede's shadow will begin to transit Jupiter

-Tony


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