Jupiter tonight

[Robert E. Seastrom]

Maitland Bottoms <aa4hs at amrad.org> writes:

>>>>>> "jfi" == Terry Fox <tfox at knology.net> writes:
> jfi> I don$,1ry(Bt know how the skies are in DC, but down here in Charleston we can see Jupiter
>
> Thanks for the heads up. I was able to tell that the moons were there
> with my binoculars before the clouds rolled in.

I was able to see the four Galilean moons last night with 10x70 binoculars.

Not surprising considering that Galileo's telescope was only 20x and
the optics in mine are late 20th century not early 17th century.

-r