Star Talk ☆ Let's Hang - All Are Welcome!!

[galled]

Good luck on your exams!

[Polaris]

Thank you!! Here's to hoping I don't bomb them :'D

Alright, so to keep in-line with the Thread's title... Did anyone see Jupiter at its greatest opposition on April 7th? On the night of April 7th, Jupiter, the Earth, and the Sun formed a straight line, allowing Jupiter to make its closest approach to Earth in 2017 AND out-shined all the stars that night!

With my telescope and 2 different lenses, I was able to get a glimpse of Jupiter and 4 of its moons. There was a point where I thought I was hallucinating a bit because I thought I saw Jupiter's stripes, but nahh! My eyes did not deceive me!!

{remind me to post some pictures I took later of Jupiter & its moons -- the pictures and my phone camera did not do the actual sight any justice whatsoever though }

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I tried taking pictures of Jupiter last night but my hands were too shaky ( well, it was cold outside...) I may try tonight with the tripod. With the binoculars I could see 2 of the moons as pin points of light around Jupiter. With my zoom lens I could see the round ball of Jupiter.

To me Jupiter looked blue with green and it looked like darker Horizontal lines - is that what you saw?

I'd love to see your photos!

Ok, I decided to do some research: with the binoculars I could See Io and I think Ganymede- too big for Europa I think (maybe if I wore my glasses i could see more?) And Jupiter was basically like the image (that I found on the web) below but more blue/green for me.

[Polaris]

I saw some hints of red on Jupiter's stripes, but yeah for the most part it was blue-ish green-ish. I'll remind myself to edit this post later when I upload the pictures I took, but they unfortunately couldn't capture Jupiter's stripes

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I'll have to download my photos and see what I ended up getting.

[dragoness129]

Ugg, my head is killing me.

[mdom]

I want pictures!!!

[Lemon Cheesecake]

dragoness - I hope you are feeling better! Were you dehydrated? Tired?

mdom - don't think I will get anything better then the photo above but it is so cool to be able to actually SEE the planets when they get close to the Earth!

[mdom]

Awww I want a telescope

[Lemon Cheesecake]

mdom - are you talking about a telescope in real life or a telescope on Windlyn?

[Cloudy]

space is so cool yet to terrifying if you really think about it. wow

any upcoming celestial/astronomical events?

[Polaris]

Oh! Now that you mention it, there is the Lyrids Meteor Shower coming up next weekend!
It's just your average meteor shower, but will nonetheless still be fun to watch! I think it should be peaking on the night of April 22nd and into the early morning of April 23d

[Gingerale]

There was a meteor or space debris (haven't heard a confirmation on which yet) that lit up the sky on Monday night here on the west coast - I didn't get to see it in real life though!

The moon has been illuminating the night quite brightly this week.

[Polaris]

I think the full moon was just yesterday, which means the new moon should be coming in 2 weeks? Don't trust me on my math skills though ahaha

What was the meteor/space debris like?

[Gingerale]

I only saw it on the news - looked like a streak then 2 consecutive explosions of light with some green and orange color.