SingAstro

we tried gazing tonight again. We saw Jupiter with 3 moons. Apparently Ganymede and Europa overlapped each other today (according to Stellarium). Then we saw another two bright spot 45 degrees apart (still at SW sky), to the left of Jupiter. We have no idea which star is it, I suspect it's alpha Gru...

I thought it's supposed to be IO instead of LO?

i see.. now too cloudy can't see it anymore.
BTW, Stellarium is awesome!

ooo.... moving, yes, they move from East to West.
Hmm... maybe the moon really did went behind Jupiter.

My friend said he saw that the brighter spots are elongated, maybe it was the moons.

E-W, you mean the stars' alignment? Ya, it's E-W.
But I only see two, maybe my telescope's resolution is not high enough.

Hi everyone, I'm new here. I'm new to Astronomy too. I just got myself a Celestron Firstscope from Amazon.com I just got the telescope today and I just came back from my first attempt @ star-gazing. It was very cloudy tonight but I've managed to find a bright spot (south sky) and tried focussing on ...