{"id":3575,"date":"2013-03-14T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/?p=3575"},"modified":"2013-03-13T21:47:19","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T04:47:19","slug":"moon-and-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2013\/03\/14\/moon-and-jupiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Moon and Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we attempted to see the comet PanSTARRS again; but we had prayer meeting tonight and by the time we got outside the comet had set.  But, I had my telescope with me (a Meade 3 1\/2 inch Maksutov\u2013Cassegrain with a field tripod and equatorial mount with motor drive) and so we looked at the crescent moon and Jupiter.  Jupiter was beautiful tonight, near Taurus.  And all four of the Galilean satellites were visible!  This is what we saw:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/JupitersMoons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/JupitersMoons.jpg\" alt=\"JupitersMoons\" width=\"1050\" height=\"1050\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/JupitersMoons.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/JupitersMoons-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/JupitersMoons-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/JupitersMoons-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1050px) 100vw, 1050px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is based on a nifty java app that is on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/observing\/objects\/planets\/3307071.html#\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sky and Telescope<\/em> website<\/a>, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/observing\/objects\/javascript\/jupiter#\" target=\"_blank\">Jupiter&#8217;s Moons<\/a>. It can give you a picture of the four Galilean satellites in real time, so you&#8217;ll know exactly what you&#8217;re looking at through a telescope or good pair of binoculars. <\/p>\n<p>I modified the Sky and Telescope image using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">the opensource program GIMP<\/a>, an excellent image manipulation program; it&#8217;s very powerful and can do most of what PhotoShop can do, but for free. If you don&#8217;t have a high end image manipulation program such as PhotoShop, and you need it, I recommend you get GIMP.  It has a bit of a learning curve, but there are plenty of help files and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\/docs\/\" target=\"_blank\">tutorials available on the GIMP website<\/a> and on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8LmW5ndnEqw\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we attempted to see the comet PanSTARRS again; but we had prayer meeting tonight and by the time we got outside the comet had set. But, I had my telescope with me (a Meade 3 1\/2 inch Maksutov\u2013Cassegrain with &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2013\/03\/14\/moon-and-jupiter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}