Observing Session for Tuesday, September 21

Thank you to all who showed up. We had a big turnout! To recap, we met on the Crespi campus and viewed Neptune (we could tell that it was blue), Uranus, the globular cluster M13 (although with all the light pollution in Encino, it was nothing more than a faint blob), Jupiter and three of its four Galilean moons (Callisto, Io, and Ganymede; Europa was in front of Jupiter and not seen), and a nearly full Moon. We clearly saw the copper colored North Equatorial Belt in Jupiter's atmosphere. On this night, Jupiter was the largest and brightest it has been since 1963! Jupiter won't be this large or this bright again until 2022.