[meteorite-list] Cub Scouts and a Star Party

From: cdtucson at cox.net <cdtucson_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:45:00 -0400
Message-ID: <20101011184500.NBTYO.169948.imail_at_fed1rmwml4101>

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
Meteoritemax
---- 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 
>

Received on Mon 11 Oct 2010 06:45:00 PM PDT