Last night I set up my telescope for the first time in about 3 months (due to far too much cloud) and was lucky to happen across the sight of Ganymede (on of the four largest of Jupiters’ moons) passing in front of the planet itself. The whole transit takes between 2 and 5 hours but unfortunately, due to a telescopes amazing power to create clouds, I only saw about 15 minutes worth before the clouds rolled in.
This was the first transit I have seen, and it was impressive, even though Jupiter was only 5 degrees or so from the full moon. I had been debating whether to go out (due to the full moon), I am glad I did.

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