[APBeta] Jupiter and the moons

[David Crum]

Paul, thank you for looking into this.  I took S&T at their word
(kinda) and looked at Skymap and it was right, but after I got home
and looked at this email, I loaded up Sky6 and saw the same thing.
Now I have no clue when this event that S&T is reporting even happens
:)

In the future, I am going to triple check myself before emailing :)


Dave

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Paul Rodman<paul at ilanga.com> wrote:
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> On Aug 22, 2009, at 2:01 PM, David Crum wrote:
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>> I was seeing how AP would do on Sept 3rd, 2009 at 01:00 (local time),
>> when all of the moons of Jupiter are either behind it, or in front of
>> the planet casting a shadow.  Using Sky and Telescopes Jupiter moons
>> Java program I saw what I expected to find.  I also confirmed this
>> using Skymap Pro.  However, AP shows Callisto on the side of Jupiter
>> along with Europa and Ganymede.  Skymap Pro shows Ganymede and Europa
>> only in front of the planet (confirms S&T's views)
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>> What am I missing??  I have Jacksonville as my site, the date is
>> 9/3/2009 local time is 01:00:47
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> Well, I looked at Starry Night Pro 6 and it shows the same as AP, with
> Callisto of to one size, Io behind, and the others in front:
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