Moon - Jupiter Occultation
Taken by Alan Stankevitz on October 6, 2026 @
Hokah, MN
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Well, I woke up at about 2:45am and thought about photographing the Moon-Jupiter occultation but figured (a.) it was probably foggy in our valley and (b.) the moon was probably too low and behind our bluff.
After dreaming that got up and caught the end of the occultation, I got up and got the occultation. (At least the end of it.)
I first hiked across the yard to only realize that the moon was still behind the trees. Ufda! I then ran to the car, threw the camera, tripod and myself into said car and zoomed down the driveway and over to our neighbor's sod farm.
I rapidly deployed the tripod and camera to just catch Jupiter re-emerging from the shadow-side of the moon. Up and to the right of Jupiter are Jupiter's Galilean moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. (They are hard to see and not sure how well they show on your display but they are there in the original image.)
They are called the Galilean moons because Galileo was the first to spot the four major moons of Jupiter back in 1610. Today we know Jupiter has at least 115 moons!
Time to go back to dreamland...Zzzzzz....
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