For those interested in trying to see the GRS, Jr. approach to GRS pappa, the Sky & Telescope website has an online calculator that gives transit times for the Great Red Spot: http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/article_107_1.asp GRS, Jr. looks from the June 5 NASA Press Release to be about 10-20 degrees trailing of the Great Red Spot. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/05jun_redperil.htm?list89139 The second page of the S&T Article also includes a table of all the GRS transits for the rest of the year from the ALPO. http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/objects/planets/article_107_2.asp UTC GRS transit times for the next week (from the article) are: 10, 7:51 (Y-alt 20deg), 17:47; 11, 3:43 (Y-alt 33deg, twilight), 13:38, 23:34; 12, 9:30, 19:25; 13, 5:21 (Y-34.5 deg), 15:17; 14, 1:12 (Y-Daylight), 11:08, 21:04; 15, 6:59 (Y-alt 25deg), 16:55; 16, 2:51 (Y-Civil Sunset-alt 31deg), 12:46, 22:42; 17, 8:38 (Y-alt 8.5deg), 18:33; "(Y)" after a time means that I have checked the Jupitor is above the horizon at my intermountain 41N lat, 111 W observing point. The near full Moon is up on most of these dates. - Canopus56 P.S. - I'm not quite sure what Jovian features are built into the various popular planetarium programs. P.P.S. - The MDT date/time -6h translations for favorable date-times are: 6/10 7:51UTC = 6/10 1:51AM MDT 20deg 6/11 3:45UTC = 6/10 9:45PM MDT 33deg 6/13 5:21UTC = 6/12 11:21PM MDT 34.5deg 6/15 6:59UTC = 6/15 0:59AM MDT 25deg 6/16 2:51UTC = 6/15 8:51PM MDT 31deg __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com