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Io Shadowing Ganymede 
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BobCarver
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A scene right out of Farmer in the Sky, captured last Sunday through an 11-inch Celestron telescope by an amateur astronomer in the Phillipines:


I was going to read the whole forum before starting to post, but couldn't resist this. Io is casting its shadow across Ganymede. More info on this can be found on .
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If you squint really hard, you can see Bill Lermer! :mrgreen:

Cool, thanks!

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In case anyone is interested in seeing some great animations of the various moons and planets in our solar system,
is a great site for them. You can download these as Quicktime
movies. is one of my favorites (click on the
image at the upper right to download the movie).
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You can see features on Ganymede with an 11 inch terrestrial telescope?!? Wow.
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