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From: ltn@lems.UUCP (Les Niles)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: planets visible this month
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Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 12:30:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 12:30:34 1984
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In article  rrm@inuxe.UUCP (Ron Meyer) writes:
>...  If you have a set of binoculars (or a telescope would be better) you may
>be able to see some of jupiters moon's, ....

This reminds me, i remeber reading somewhere that jupiter's moons are fairly
bright (mag. 5 or so), and would be visible to the naked eye if not for the
glare of jupiter, and that by standing so that some nearby object *just*
blocks out the planet, the moons are visible.  I wonder if anyone has ever
really seen this???  It would take a pretty dark & clear sky, and it would
probably help to know when the moons were at their greatest elongation.

-les niles