{"id":844,"date":"2020-08-03T16:56:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T20:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2020-08-03T16:56:21","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T20:56:21","slug":"observing-jupiter-and-saturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/2020\/08\/03\/observing-jupiter-and-saturn\/","title":{"rendered":"Observing Jupiter and Saturn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is the Full Moon, and if it weren’t for Tropical Storm\/Hurricane Isaiah on its way, we’d get a wonderful view of the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn this evening, as this screenshot from Stellarium<\/a> (free download) shows.<\/p>\n

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The Moon, Jupiter and Saturn would be visible above the SE horizon this evening after sunset.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile you might also enjoy these views of Jupiter and Saturn taken by James Garland ’22 and Dominick Rowan ’20 last October.<\/p>\n

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Saturn through the Strawbridge 16″. Credit: James Garland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jupiter through the Strawbridge 16″. Credit: James Garland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We hope we’ll be able to invite you to visit our telescopes at some point in the future. Meanwhile for the Fall we are working on a virtual alternative to our usual Public Observing Nights. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

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Today is the Full Moon, and if it weren’t for Tropical Storm\/Hurricane Isaiah on its way, we’d get a wonderful view of the Moon, Jupiter and Saturn this evening, as this screenshot from Stellarium (free download) shows. Meanwhile you might also enjoy these views of Jupiter and Saturn taken by James Garland ’22 and Dominick … Continue reading “Observing Jupiter and Saturn”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.haverford.edu\/astronoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}