back to article BY JUPITER: The science behind Friday's Solar System light show

The Slooh Observatory is holding a one-hour event, beginning at 7pm UTC (11am PST) today, to discuss Jupiter in opposition – using telescopes at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa. On Friday, February 6, Jupiter will be in opposition to the Earth, making it the brightest natural object …

  1. John H Woods Silver badge

    Flash

    Just uninstalled it. Make your minds up guys! :-)

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Flash

      "I don't see it. I don't see a thing."

    2. P. Lee

      Re: Flash

      Chromium?

    3. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge

      Re: Flash

      Yes - I know. I'll add an editorial note in a sec.

      C.

      1. waldo kitty
        WTF?

        Re: Flash

        Yes - I know. I'll add an editorial note in a sec.

        errrmmm... that was 2 hours ago by the time on your comment but i just read the article and there's no note about flash... ???

  2. TheRealRoland

    Very nice - that explains why you can see Jupiter (and Sirius, btw) through the thicker thin clouds. Very bright!

  3. Little Mouse
    Alien

    Dont stare at the sun

    There'll be lot of fried eyeballs if Jupiter picks Friday night to turn into Lucifer.

    1. Benchops

      Re: Dont stare at the sun

      Well, if you see it slowly going dark then you'll know to turn away. Or at least put your sunglasses on. Time to cancel that probe to Europa too.

  4. Tom 38
    Joke

    Jupitus in Opposition?

    I suppose a funny fat man with a beard couldn't do any worse than the current lot.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Jupitus in Opposition?

      A $DEITY that is rotund and that one can draw pictures of?

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Good timing ?

    "The web broadcast has been timed for the release of Jupiter Ascending,"

    It was timed for Jupiter Opposition, one would have thought ?

  6. A Non e-mouse Silver badge

    The Matrix

    There is only one Matrix film.

    Does anyone think there is more than one? Why would they?

    1. JacobZ

      Re: The Matrix

      Some people are very confused about lots of movies. Easy mnemonic: There is one Matrix, two Godfather, and three Star Wars movies.

      1. Little Mouse
        Coat

        Re: Re: The Matrix

        and four Highlanders? <ducks and runs for cover>.

        1. Down not across

          Re: The Matrix

          and four Highlanders? <ducks and runs for cover>.

          There can be only one.

        2. John Brown (no body) Silver badge

          Re: The Matrix

          and four Highlanders?

          Fiii-iive Goooo---oooold riiiii-ngssss (and one to rule them all in a pear tree...my preciousssss)

    2. Gordon JC Pearce

      Re: The Matrix

      There is only one Matrix movie, and its story is a ripoff of the plot of 1980s electronic prog rock masterpiece Tenants Of The Latticework, by sampling pioneers Mainframe.

  7. BongoJoe
    Headmaster

    With the brightness as it is the moons of Jupiter are readily seen with binoculars. And those lads don't half shift from night to night, not like our slothful lump of green cheese.

    1. Neil Barnes Silver badge

      Been a good month for planets

      Venus is still the brightest thing around in the south-west an hour after sunset, Saturn just before sunrise; Mercury and Mars are hanging around somewhere close to Venus (though Mercury shifts like a scalded cat!) and Jupiter's been behaving too. All the five classical planets in one night.

      Of course, there's a full moon (and not that far from Jupiter) tonight just to bugger everything up...

  8. Graham Jordan
    Unhappy

    Southern hemisphere

    So as someone in the southern hemisphere on Friday, am I going to miss out or do I just have to look in a different direction? Like through the floor or something?

    1. Pompous Git Silver badge

      Re: Southern hemisphere

      Where to look in Eastern UnderLand:

      http://nightskyonline.info/?p=16353

  9. Blitheringeejit
    Headmaster

    A moon with no view?

    >> 67 moons – although not all are visible

    Are you sure? If so, I believe you may have solved that ol' Dark Matter problem....

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