Watch for Moon and Jupiter.

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http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-jupiter-on-july-8

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1. Moon occultation of Jupiter.

For those who want to actually know what this is about without clicking through.

Here's a Universe Today link: http://www.universetoday.com/129716/moon-occults-jupiter/

Here's some details:

On July 9th, the 5-day old waxing crescent Moon will pass Jupiter. You can see ’em both Saturday night, high in the western sky at dusk. For a very few observers in the southern Indian Ocean and Antarctica, the Moon will actually occult (pass in front of) Jupiter, centered on 10:11 Universal Time (UT). The Moon will be 32% illuminated crescent during the pass, and Jupiter will present a disk 34” across, just over a month past quadrature on June 4th with a current elongation of 60 degrees east of the Sun. Jupiter just passed opposition for 2016 on March 8th, and is now headed towards solar conjunction on the far side of the Sun on September 26th.

This is the first of four occultations of Jupiter by the Moon in 2016; the next occur over subsequent lunations on August 6th, September 2nd and 30th before the relative motions of the Moon and Jupiter carry them apart, not to meet again until October 31st, 2019. And though most observers will miss this weekend’s occultation, we’ll all get a good view of the pairing worldwide. Unfortunately, the view gets successively worse (though more central) for the next few lunations, as the occultations of Jupiter by the Moon occur close to the Sun.

Much more at link, including charts and pics.

Of course, as any observational astronomer will tell you, the best time to observe is when there is no moon in the sky.

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2. Ooh I might actually be able to see that!