Io occults Europa seen through Galileoscope

In 2009, the four Galilean moons of Jupiter are undergoing a series of mutual occultations and eclipses. This video, with four sequences captured over a time span of about one hour, shows such an event on July 16th, 2009, seen from Oslo, Norway. Jupiter's moon Europa (moving towards left) is being occulted by Io. The other moons are Callisto (far left) and Ganymede (far right).

A Philips ToUcam Pro webcam + IR/UV block filter was used to capture this event through the Galileoscope, a $15 telescope produced for the International Year of Astronomy 2009 (see http://www.galileoscope.org ).

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Science & Technology

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• IYA2009
• Galileoscope
• Jupiter
• Dahle

[hdahle]

I used a Philips ToUcam Pro II (model 840) webcam.

[coolraiser103]

@TelescopeAtNight I use it too!!!

[TelescopeAtNight]

@ParaglidingManiac Download and install "Stellarium" its free, and its great!

[OK8888]

@ParaglidingManiac the combination of lenses makes it so that everything is upside down. You just gotta deal with it.

[joh04667]

@ParaglidingManiac well for starters its called astronomy not astrology :)

oh and get a sky chart-reading the sky is not like reading a map, it depends what time of year it is. you can also download programs like SkyGazer that let you see everything in the sky at certain times

[ParaglidingManiac]

Hello,

I have a problem looking through my Galileoscope. Could you help me please? When ever I am trying to look through it, it is very difficult to navigate my self. When I point the "nose" of the scope UP - the image I see goes down. I guess it could be called inverse or reverse. Not that the image is upside down, but trying to look at an object is almost impossible. What's the problem? Thank you!

[ParaglidingManiac]

Let's say I am zero at astrology. How do I navigate myself in the night sky? How do I ffind planets to look at? Any basics for noobs?;)

[Whitaby]

I know! In person you can see the different colour bands too! It's amazing. I can't wait to see Saturn. That will be around February.

[tness72]

What kind of webcam did you use?

[rg0057]

Wow. I haven't tried to see Jupiter yet through my Galileoscope, but I'm impressed with your results. Hard to believe a $15 telescope can do this!