Curiosity gets the better of me – Jupiter and it's Moons…
You know the photo I took the other night of Jupiter and it’s moons?
Today curiousity finally got the better of me, and I installed a rather wonderful application called “Stellarium” on my netbook, to figure out which moon was which. Rolling back the clock to about the right time-frame that we were in the back garden, the magic box of tricks tells us the following (click on the pic for a bigger version via Flickr);
From left to right, they are Callisto, Europa, Io, and Ganymede.
It also occurs to me that I should have pointed out that the pictures from the telescope are of course upside down and back to front – it’s a reflector telescope!
geek++
That’s an impressive photo. I’ve never considered myself to be a fan of the stars. So much in fact that I waited until my senior year of college to take the lab. In the end, it was one of the best classes I ever signed up for.
I haven’t retained as much of the information I should have. That’s my loss. The things you learn….and forget.
But I still think that is a cool photo!