It's Jupiter Season

[Ice Pick]

For fellow stargazers and just people who like to look up in the sky, Jupiter is at opposition on October 28th of this year. This means it's closest to Earth on this date and visible all night long. At magnitude -2.9 you can't miss Jupiter, which rises in the East after Sunset.

If you've got a telescope or good strong binoculars you can watch Jupiter's Moons change position each night.

[Dick Tator]

What will be it's position in relation to the moon?

[jwreck]

I saw Jupiter the other night. I had use my night sky universe app to figure out what it was. It was very clear and bright.

[Ice Pick]

What will be it's position in relation to the moon?

The Moon won't be near Jupiter on that date though. If that is what your talking about here.

[DngrMse]

With even a moderate pair of binoculars, you can see several of Jupiter's moons.....and they change position each day. A telescope is better, and a reflector in the neighborhood of six inches will not only resolve many of that planet's moons, but always the bands on it's surface, and the great red spot too.

I first saw Jupiter's moons with a four inch refractor...and at the time, I didn't know what they were. I assumed they were faint stars, that just coincidentally happened to be near jupiter at the time. I managed to figure it out after a couple nights. The best sky-gazing is in the middle of winter, nice cold air is very clear, and if bundled up properly, you can stay out for an hour or two.....or until someone calls the cops on you for acting all suspicious, and peering through a telescope in the middle of the night. Which happened to me. The cop told me I had to go inside, because some one of the neighbors was 'concerned'. I refused, my dad came out and raised hell with the cop. The cop left, things quieted down, and I went back to peeking at the hot blond chick down the street taking a shower.

[86Dùde]

Rabbit season.