While I was in the valley and not up in the clear mountain air, I was still able to watch the shadow of Ganymede crawl across Jupiter's surface. Then saw the same moon pop off the planets surface. Totally cool! Shared Jupiter and Saturn with my five year old granddaughter for the first time as well. Not much in the world that's better than that! Thanks for sharing John Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 5:37 PM, John M. Craig<jmcraig@xmission.com> wrote: Hi Folks, I don't know what combination of things led to the amazing seeing last night up on the Nebo Loop, but Jupiter was particularly spectacular. I am quite sure I've never seen that much detail visually ever before--certainly not through my 6" so-called ED APO refractor. Saturn looked great too with it's retinue of Titan and it's medium-sized moons Dione, Tethys, Enceladus, & Rhea. I wish I'd known where to look for Mimas, it might have been visible too. For whatever reason, the seeing wasn't quite as stable just that much further west from Jupiter, but during moments of clarity, the Cassini division was clear and it was easy to see color bands on Saturn itself. We had the fun of having a local camp host drive up and when offered a look, hopped right out of his car and joined us for the rest of the session. Over the years I've noticed that there are relatively few people who will approach and ask what you are looking at or some other leading question--hoping you'll invite them to take a look. But, when people are offered, they're often quite enthusiastic. One recent time we were up there on Nebo Loop at the Beaver Dam Overlook (a great spot with the only light dome being to the west and northwest) the folks who came and looked after we offered game several of us papayas--I promptly forgot about the one I'd be given and since I didn't unload the gear from the van right away, it had turned into a sticky mess in the heat. Oops. Good viewing all! John _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list -- utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".