Tonight we have been outside viewing Jupiter...this apparently happens every 13 months with tonight being the closest it has come to the Earth since 1963 and is closer than it will be until 2022...
Astronomers call this "opposition of Jupiter" where our (being the Earth's) faster orbit places Jupiter opposite of the Sun in our sky...
Through binoculars, you can see one, two or more of the planet’s four largest moons, known as the "Galilean Satellites". They will appear as tiny ’stars’ strung out in a line bisecting the planet. We brought out our Galileoscope and our binoculars and was able to see well... as the planet was just to the left of our moon...
The view from my front porch...
Reminder: tomorrow night Uranus will also be visible and you can find a chart here to help you locate it...
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