This year, Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been nicely bordered by the thick white line of the Red Spot Hollow, which indents the dark South Equatorial Belt. Note the very dark red barge following behind the pale Red Spot. The North Equatorial Belt is full of turbulence, including a big blue plume. Far to the right (celestial east), Ganymede and Europa are in conjunction. S&T's Sean Walker took this image at 1:15 UT September 3, 2009. South is up. Stacked-video images like this show much more detail than you're ever likely to see visually on Jupiter.
Very little change if any since last week Mercury and Saturn are lost in the sunset, It’s a shame about Saturn because on September 4th its rings turned edge-on to Earth, and are invisible bar a dark line around Saturn’s equator. Venus is still blazing away in the pre dawn sky, with Mars moving away from it now and rising around 1pm, some where between Taurus and Orion. Aldebaran, in Taurus and Betelgeuse in Orion, all three are similarly coloured and bright, Mars is the most North Easterly.
The sky hasn’t been all that clear recently but over the weekend the full moon broke through and it was nice to see the Chinese lantern things; I’ve no idea what the proper name is crossing the path of the almost full moon and Jupiter on Saturday night. The moon is on the way out now its in its last quarter on Friday and if we get the clear skies predicted Jupiter will worth looking at with binoculars, dominating the southern sky all night. And the Milky Way will be over head arcing from the North east to the South West and it’s always worth a look.
You’ve probably gathered by now that I’ve haven’t got a whole lot to tell you this week, but if there’s anything you’d particularly like to have a look at, if you go to the Scilly Stars blog, look at the links and click on Scilly Star Map, I’ve finally set it up so it’s no longer exclusively for out Tasmanian listeners. The page has a set of basic but adequate tools for you to drill down to get what you’re looking, any time of day in fact any time at all. For example the 25th of October 1745 was completely useless all the planets were up all day long and if you were very lucky you might have caught a glimpse of Mars as it set at seven. October 25th is a lot better this year at 11pm we have mars rising as Jupiter sets. And in the year 2525 if man is still alive on October the 25th the moon is very close to Saturn in the South. See endless hours of free fun, I think I’d better stop now.
Someone from one of those green dots that mar our horizon from the South West to the North East told me in the co-op the other day that the off islands are under represented in Scilly Stars, well I don’t wish to offend anyone, so for the best view go up the garrison, any night you want, look just above the horizon due west and you’ll see the lights of St Agnes to the North you’ll catch a glimpse of the lights of Bryher behind Samson with Tresco next door and in the extreme North East you’ catch St Martins, though all of them are fairly easy to during the day, and I’ve been led to believe that there are manned expeditions to these Islands of light everyday. Scilly Stars is nothing if its not inclusive.
That was your night’s sky for the week ending on the 74th anniversary of Germany adopting a new national flag with the swastika.
The sky hasn’t been all that clear recently but over the weekend the full moon broke through and it was nice to see the Chinese lantern things; I’ve no idea what the proper name is crossing the path of the almost full moon and Jupiter on Saturday night. The moon is on the way out now its in its last quarter on Friday and if we get the clear skies predicted Jupiter will worth looking at with binoculars, dominating the southern sky all night. And the Milky Way will be over head arcing from the North east to the South West and it’s always worth a look.
You’ve probably gathered by now that I’ve haven’t got a whole lot to tell you this week, but if there’s anything you’d particularly like to have a look at, if you go to the Scilly Stars blog, look at the links and click on Scilly Star Map, I’ve finally set it up so it’s no longer exclusively for out Tasmanian listeners. The page has a set of basic but adequate tools for you to drill down to get what you’re looking, any time of day in fact any time at all. For example the 25th of October 1745 was completely useless all the planets were up all day long and if you were very lucky you might have caught a glimpse of Mars as it set at seven. October 25th is a lot better this year at 11pm we have mars rising as Jupiter sets. And in the year 2525 if man is still alive on October the 25th the moon is very close to Saturn in the South. See endless hours of free fun, I think I’d better stop now.
Someone from one of those green dots that mar our horizon from the South West to the North East told me in the co-op the other day that the off islands are under represented in Scilly Stars, well I don’t wish to offend anyone, so for the best view go up the garrison, any night you want, look just above the horizon due west and you’ll see the lights of St Agnes to the North you’ll catch a glimpse of the lights of Bryher behind Samson with Tresco next door and in the extreme North East you’ catch St Martins, though all of them are fairly easy to during the day, and I’ve been led to believe that there are manned expeditions to these Islands of light everyday. Scilly Stars is nothing if its not inclusive.
That was your night’s sky for the week ending on the 74th anniversary of Germany adopting a new national flag with the swastika.
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