Jupiter will meet moon in Monday night sky (13 years before this union happens again)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20130120/NEWS/701209927/1685#jupiter-will-meet-moon-in-monday-night-sky

By Jay Withrow
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

What's a homebody to do, besides hunker down inside a humble abode, on a bitterly cold January night in the Midlands?

Try bundling up Monday night and taking a brief, brisk respite in your backyard while gazing at the heavens. The brave will be rewarded by the rare sight of a conjunction of the moon and Jupiter.

Our solar system's largest planet and the moon will be at their closest Monday night, said David Kriegler of the University of Nebraska at Omaha's physics department.

It will be 13 years before this union happens again.

FULL story at link.

[darkangel218]

1. Jupiter and the Moon together..

Makes for a crazy vibe night, astrologically speaking.
I shall remain indoors.

[Warren DeMontague]

5. She's still mad that we bombed her.

I hear.

[DreamGypsy]

2. Here's a NASA video...

...with some details on the interactions, eg. 8:00 pm PST. Also, some of the other moon-planet encounters that already occurred this month.

http://www.space.com/19061-jupiter-and-the-moon-dominate-january-night-sky.html

Thanks for the post, OS.

[Speck Tater]

3. Depends on where you live. It never happens here in Orygun.

And what is this "moon" thing you speak of? Is that one of the mythical lights above the cloud layer we've heard stories about?

[freshwest]

6. Not above the cold waters above the Sound, either. Freezing fog tonight. It's the DeathStar, really.

We've got plenty of those UFOs here, too:



Always hanging around here. That and the vampires and zombies. So I am not going out tomorrow night.

Nope, gonna hang out at DU and watch the Obamas dancing on CSPAN.

[Arctic Dave]

15. Do you happen to know the names of those cloud formations?

When I was climbing Mt. Rainier we had one develop right in front of us while we were making camp.

[Fumesucker]

16. Lenticular cloud

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenticular_cloud

[Mojorabbit]

22. Beautiful clouds! I have never seen anything like it! nt

[Coyotl]

4. I've been observing this. EarthSky covered it. Good photo ops now with telescopes, moon and moons

of Jupiter too in one frame.

[Fumesucker]

17. Don't even need a telescope really

I took this shot with a point and shoot camera on Nov 28 when the Moon and Jupiter were rising close together.

[Coyotl]

19. To see the moons of Jupiter you do.

That's the really cool shot, our moon and the moons of Jupiter in the same frame. It requires magnification.

[Fumesucker]

21. If Jupiter weren't there you could see the Galilean moons with the naked eye

It's really more a matter of exposure, the Moon will be greatly overexposed if you get the Galilean moons properly exposed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilean_moons

All four Galilean moons are bright enough that they could, if they were farther away from Jupiter, be sighted from Earth without a telescope. (They are, however, easily visible with even low-powered binoculars.) They have apparent magnitudes between 4.6 and 5.6 when Jupiter is in opposition with the Sun,[41] and are about one unit of magnitude dimmer when Jupiter is in conjunction. The main difficulty in observing the moons from Earth is their proximity to Jupiter since they are obscured by its brightness.[42] The maximum angular separations of the moons are between 2 and 10 minutes of arc from Jupiter,[43] close to the limit of human visual acuity. Ganymede and Callisto, at their maximum separation, are the likeliest targets for potential naked-eye observation. The easiest way to observe them is to "cover" Jupiter with an object, e.g., a tree limb or a utility pole that is perpendicular to the plane of the moons' orbits.

The Moon on the other hand is around magnitude -12 or so, seventeen magnitudes brighter than Jupiter's moons, that's a brightness ratio of more than a million to one.

You would need to do HDR processing with multiple exposures at different shutter speeds to capture that dynamic range.

[MineralMan]

24. When I was younger, I could see four of Jupiter's moons with my naked eye.

No longer, I'm afraid. One of the things that a guy misses as he grows older.

[freshwest]

7. Is the Moon in the 7th House and will Jupiter align with Mars? The Age of Aquaris?

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For real, is it really happening?

[DearHeart]

12. Off topic...every time I hear this song, I think of the movie "The Sure Thing" and

Tim Robbins as "Gary Cooper, but not the dead one" singing show tunes!

[freshwest]

13. Yes, they get in our brains and don't leave, oh, no!

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[MzShellG]

18. So there are some rare planetary alignments occurring........

NASA had downplayed this possibility/prophecy.

[freshwest]

23. Like clockwork. Not to worry. Means something on the astral plane flight of fancy. Boarding now!

[JI7]

8. can you see it in southern california and what time ?

[Angry Dragon]

9. If they collide will the world end as we know it??

[Wednesdays]

14. Nah.

When you look up at it, the moon is only about an inch wide, and Jupiter is just a speck.

[NutmegYankee]

10. The crescent moon and Venus were spectacular on the 10th.

It had that classic Islamic symbol look around 6:30 am.

[DearHeart]

11. I hope it's clear around here tomorrow night!

Usually, any time there is something cool to be seen, we are clouded over and unable to view!

[Berlum]

20. This is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius

As everyone totally agrees. Right?

[DreamGypsy]

25. It's 5:10 pm on the left coast...

The sun was almost down over the western hills when I took the dogs for a walk about 4:45. We have had cold foggy days recently, but this afternoon was bright and only a little ground fog developed, along with some light scattered clouds. The 17/32nds moon has been visible since about 3 or so. As the light faded to orange, a faint speck appeared to left and very slightly above the moon, separated by about the width of a little-finger tip. I told my wife that the moon may need to use the turn signal and get into the passing lane to get by later this evening. Jupiter didn't seem the very bold spectacle he has been this month, but there's still time.

I am heading back out with a camera to see if I can get anything. There's not enough light now to get a photo of the Blue Heron or the Snowy Egret that were in the field earlier.

[Matariki]

26. Off topic - Troll Hunter is an awesome movie ;-)

you got good taste

[Omaha Steve]

27. Marta and I went out and looked just now

The light of the moon gets through the cloud cover. Jupiter must not be bright enough to get through. It was 13 degrees.

[Coyotl]

29. Jupiter and Moon Have Close Encounter Tonight: See It Live Online

Jupiter and Moon Have Close Encounter Tonight: See It Live Online
http://news.yahoo.com/jupiter-moon-close-encounter-tonight-see-live-online-132047172.html

[Coyotl]

28. Right NOW would be when to take a look.

[leftyohiolib]

30. mars is near there also

[TheMadMonk]

31. Oh really? I just watched a full occultation.

And by my math 29 days is a lot less than 13 years.

Sad, sad symptom of a dying empire I've been seeing more and more of. If it didn't happen in America (or her sight) it didn't happen at all, and certainly isn't worth reporting.