Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site lems.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!harvard!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!lems!ltn From: ltn@lems.UUCP (Les Niles) Newsgroups: net.astro Subject: Re: planets visible this month Message-ID: <150@lems.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 12:30:34 EST Article-I.D.: lems.150 Posted: Mon Dec 3 12:30:34 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 03:31:38 EST References:Reply-To: ltn@lems.UUCP (Les Niles) Organization: lems Lines: 14 [] 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