Jupiter Watch: 09/21/10

Mods sorry this isnt an appropiate forum please move it to the Space Forum, my mistake

I would like to make this thread the general update thread for Ats members and their Jupiter Watch

As many of you have heard on September 21, 2010 Jupitar will be closest to Earth since October 1963 This is a very exciting event for skywatchers, and astronomers.

The main point of this thread is to talk about your location and your view of the planet, and after the event if there are any pictures you may post them here for everyone else to see



Hope everyone enjoys the night sky tomorrow night,
Love and Peace
Kelliott

Jupiter

Good idea for a thread, but should probably be in the space forum, for future reference. Will be interesting to see how much detail we will be able to see from earth. Looking forward to some decent pics of the moons

For you Sky experts out there I have one question:

I am located alongside of Lake Ontario, a little city called Kingston.

I am wondering if any oculd tell me where i may be able to spot out Jupitar from here. Kingston is located between Toronto and Ottawa just so you know When i look at the moon it is rising in the South, East. hope that helps.

reply to post by OzWeatherman


Ozweatherman, thank you i too am very excited for this event and hope some of our members get some great pictures


Love and Peace
Kelliott

For people watching the sky in Ontario, look out for some strange red star or orange star at the night, i haven't seen that one before, and please take pictures of these blinking stars, what some say might be alien spaceships

reply to post by Agent_USA_Supporter


Actually i am in that region, right on Lake Ontario and i was out at about 10:00pm tonight (40 minutes ago) and i coould/can see this star in the North, East sky. The star/planet is strobing red/orange, any experts in the field explain this ? i think it could be a planet, posibly Mercury ?

reply to post by Kelliott


Dont you know how to use stellarium.com to check?

I would look it up for you but that wont get you to start using it.

Good luck and I hope its something unknown!

reply to post by Overtime


Good call overtime, ive never used the website before but tonight will be a first for this special event

reply to post by Kelliott


Cool! Let me know what it was

reply to post by Overtime


blaah ... My computer is very slow, as i am using a HP Mini with windows 7 starter in the middle of the country

i know..... not a good mix

Originally posted by Kelliott
reply to post by Agent_USA_Supporter

 

Actually i am in that region, right on Lake Ontario and i was out at about 10:00pm tonight (40 minutes ago) and i coould/can see this star in the North, East sky. The star/planet is strobing red/orange, any experts in the field explain this ? i think it could be a planet, posibly Mercury ?

That was probably the bright star Capella. Way up north it rises much earlier than it does down here in florida, where even at 11pm I can't yet see it.

Here's an image of Jupiter I acquired about two weeks ago.
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I recorded the planet for about 3 hours last night monitoring for any new impacts but didn't see anything yet. I still need to go over all the footage intently, but it takes a lot of time. Unfortunately there's way too much video to get it all up on the web.

If you have Dish network go to channel 287 now and look at this, a view of Earth Live but something Unusual, A Large EYE on the Screen. time now 11:49 pm EST

I'm from Windsor ON, Canada, can anyone give me some advice on where to look tomorrow night?

bummer, been raining for the last 3 days here.

and it won't clear up soon.




lantau island, hong kong.

reply to post by ngchunter


OMG that is a great picture! I would love the telescope you have. How did you do that?

Also what is that in your avy?

reply to post by fooks

Don't worry. Jupiter wasn't all that much farther away yesterday than it is today and it won't be much farther away tomorrow. Not enough so you would notice a difference. A difference of about 15,000 km out of about 592,000,000.

reply to post by Phage


Does having Jupiter close increase Earths chances of an unknown object hitting us??

I only ask because I've heard Jupiter's gravity often saves Earth by pulling asteroids and such away, but now its as close as it gets..

reply to post by CynicalM

It's a two edged sword. Well, more like a 1.00000001 edged sword.

An object which is "aimed" at Earth would be deflected by Jupiter if it passes close enough to it or destroyed if it hits it. But there is a chance (a very very small chance) that an object which was not aimed at Earth would be if it is deflected (just right) by Jupiter. The chances for the former are far greater than that of the latter. But the proximity of Jupiter to Earth is not relevant to either scenario.

reply to post by Phage


Thanks, so it isnt close enough for Earth to be inbetween an object being drawn in by Jupiter?

Its just closer than normal...I get it