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09/26/2013 Jupiter Will Be Visible To The Naked Eye Soon... Plus How You Can See 4 Of The Jupiter Moons! I think a lot of you know that I love meteorology and I love anything science. We will have a great opportunity to see Jupiter over the next 3 days, so I wanted to give you some info on where and when to look. What makes this even more cool is that you can even see 4 moons of Jupiter if you have a simple set of binoculars! I just think that is amazing, so let me get into the details of where you will need to look. Jupiter Visible For The Next 3 Nights About 2 months ago, I starting chatting with a guy named John Chumack from galacticimages. Since then, John has been very generous to share images he shoots from his backyard observatory in Ohio. On Wednesday, John shot this amazing image of Jupiter with its moon Eupora in transit of the planet. Notice you can also see the infamous Great Red spot on the left side of the image! Facebook Picture One of the things that makes this image so cool is that the moon Europa is actually casting a black shadow on the cloud tops of Jupiter. You can see the moon on the left and the shadow on the cloud tops of Jupiter in the middle of the image. John described viewing Jupiter to me by email. "One of the coolest planets to look at through a small telescope is Jupiter and it’s 4 brightest Galilean Moons, within just minutes of watching you can see the motion of the moons as they orbit Jupiter, along with the rotation of its cloud tops. You can watch the Great Red Spot transit in about 4 hours. One of the easiest features to see is the Northern & Southern Equatorial Belts or cloud bands!!! Jupiter does one complete rotation in just under 10 hours." Where And When To Look For Jupiter Now the fun part! John mentioned to me that Jupiter will be visible on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday morning. The times you will want to look are... Friday morning from 5:30 am - 6:15 am - Jupiter will appear below moon. Saturday morning from 5:30 am - 6:15 am - Jupiter will appear to the left of the moon. Sunday morning from 5:30 am - 6:15 am - Jupiter will appear above the moon. John gives some viewing tips as well. "Get out around 5:30 am to 6:15 am and look east, you will see the brightest star in the sky high in the east is actually the Planet Jupiter! If you hold a pair of binoculars steady enough or mount them on a tripod you can actually see the 4 Galilean Moons as well." The part I love is that you can see 4 of the Jupiter (Galilean) moon with something as simple as binoculars! How cool is that??? A huge thanks to John for sharing his amazing images and info with our blog. It is now fall storm season and if you want to be one of my storm spotters, you can join me on my facebook or twitter page. Just follow the link below and click "like" or "follow". If you ever have any question, please remember I can be reached on facebook or twitter easily! Just follow the link below to my facebook or twitter page and click "LIKE/FOLLOW"! https://facebook/pages/Marc-Weinberg/171330336238674#!/pages/Marc-Weinberg/171330336238674 twitter/MarcWeinbergWX Posted by Marc Weinberg at 07:12:07 PM