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[Centaur]

This evening (Fri Jan 9) Jupiter's Galilean satellites #1 Io and #2 Europa and their shadows will appear simultaneously in transit across Jupiter. 

I've created two preview graphics and a timetable that can be viewed at CurtRenz.com/jupiter.html

Photos and descriptions of the event would be welcome additions to this thread.

As an advance notice, there will be a rare triple shadow transit during the night of 2015 JAN 23-24. The next triple shadow transit after that won't happen until 2032. I'll provide graphics and a timetable for this month's triple shadow transit by midday on January 23.

[Paulie pchris00]

It was a long, weird first week back to work after the holiday break. After a long night and morning Thursday-Friday, I woke up just in time to see this, but wasn't much in the mood to deal with the extreme cold, so I skipped it. Maybe I'll catch the triple shadow transit instead.