Richard,
That's strange. My version of Starry Night Pro (for Mac) shows the
occultation clearly, although it has it a few minutes earlier than Sky
& Tel predicted.
There sho'nuff was an occultation last night. I saw it with my own one
eye!
I observed from home with a home-made 10" f/7 Dob at about 190X. I
didn't get a chance to tweak the collimation. The seeing varied from
poor to fair. As a result, I couldn't resolve this situation as well
as I would have liked.
I started observing at around 7:30 PM (Pacific time). The two moons
were close, but easily resolved, even at lower power. I checked every
5 or 10 minutes from there until around 8:00, as they drew closer.
Sometime before 8:00 they merged into an unresolvable messy dot of
light (I wasn't sure of the exact time, because I wasn't looking
continuously during this time). I watched more carefully for the end
of the occultation. I could suspect a split at about 8:10 and had a
clean split again at about 8:12.
Bob
--- RichardN22@No-Spam wrote:
> In a message dated 2/4/2003 7:21:50 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> rljtac@No-Spam writes:
>
> >
> > Europa-Fu. Sky &Tel web site says 4:04 UT on Feb. 5. That makes
> it
> > 8:04 Pacific, I think. Ends at 4:07 (8:07).
> >
> > Joe Bob says "check it out".
> >
>
> Starry Night shows Io transiting before 2:a.m. on Feb 6 th. I don't
> see
> anything happening on the 5th.
>
> Richard
>
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