It was Jupiter, but you cannot see the moons with naked eye. You would need at least binocs to see them. The little object next to planet Jupiter must have been a star.
Here in s-w Finland, the Jupiter passed the disc of the moon very close, almost "touching" the bottom part of the moon. Had I been 100km more north, I would have seen (with a telescope) the Jupiter "travel between" the mountains of the moon. A close encounter :-) Antti-Pekka At 11:36 27.1.2002 -0500, you wrote: >Guess this is hard to figure from different vantage points.. >Bearing in mind >I'm in the middle of Manhattan, I saw the planet and what >appeared to be a moon >_above and to the right_ of our moon. The planet's moon >was about 4 oclock >to the planet. THe planet was at um between 1 and 2 oclock >to our moon. > > I meant a bit later to have a look through binocs but got >involved in a >project. > >Looking forward to your photos, David! >annsan --- * Antti-Pekka Virjonen * Fiskarsinkatu 7 D * GSM: +358 400 789753 * * Computec Oy Turku * FIN-20750 Turku Finland * Fax: +358 2 413 7777 * - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
