Friday, 31 July 2009

Moonset and Jupiter again

Same telescope as in the previous post, different situation: waxing moon.
After some time wasted (the temptation to point the telescope to the ground and spy innocent people from the top of my house is unimaginable) I convinced myself to watch the orange setting moon a little nearer (20mm eyepiece):

The setting moon, through telescope
 

And after I proved that Jupiter's moons (obviously) move and then (indirectly) that gravitational laws are true. As you can see in the pictures below, with the same telescope (20mm eyepiece) the moons have a different configurations and it agrees with Stellarium. (mouse rollover to circle the moons):




Stellarium (mouse rollover to name the moons):



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