![]() ![]() Jupiter's Red Spot should transit the planet's central meridian later in the night, around 12:30 a.m. Io's shadow leaves Jupiter's face at 10:17 p.m. EDT, followed closely by Io itself 20 minutes later. ![]() ■ The shadow of Jupiter's fast-moving moon Io crosses onto the eastern edge of Jupiter's face at 8:07 p.m. Herman's Cross is 2° long from end to end. Its stars are all about magnitude 4½, quite a bit fainter than the four of the Teapot's handle. The Dogs: the little four-star asterism described and mapped in the September Sky & Telescope, page 43. Now the Moon, in the dim area between Sagittarius and Capricornus, is almost smack on top of Herman's Cross, a.k.a. ■ First-quarter Moon (exact at 11:29 p.m. Before the Moon gets any lower, binoculars will help show that it's sitting almost smack on the four-star handle of the Sagittarius Teapot. ■ The Moon, a day short of first quarter, shines low in the south at the end of twilight. ![]()
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