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what's up for October moons and meteor

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showers hello and welcome I'm Jane

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Houston Jones at NASA's Jet Propulsion

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Laboratory in Pasadena California how

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many moons can you see this month our

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moon is easy to see but the others will

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take a little magnification Jupiter's

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four Galilean moons can be spotted with

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a pair of steady binoculars but really

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shine through a telescope you might be

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able to see the different sizes of the

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four moons like what Galileo saw and

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sketched over 400 years ago and this is

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a great month to view Jupiter it reaches

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opposition on october 28th when the king

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of the planets is closest to Earth in

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its orbit around the Sun and best placed

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for viewing if you haven't seen Jupiter

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through a telescope join your nearest

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amateur astronomy club or Observatory on

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their monthly public nights and have a

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look last fall Jupiter South equatorial

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belt dramatically disappeared this year

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the clouds that obscured it are gone and

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the familiar reddish belt and the famous

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Great Red Spot are prominent once again

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what other planetary moons are on

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display both Neptune and Uranus are low

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in the southern sky this month just

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after sunset you'll need a big and

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powerful telescope to spot their moons

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though it might be easier to look at

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photos of these moons taken by

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astrophotographers or sketches of

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objects seen through the eyepiece of a

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telescope mark October 8th on your

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calendars that special night is both

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international observe the moon night and

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the peak of the draconian meteor shower

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unfortunately you can't have your cake

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or your green cheese and eat it too

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moonlight interferes with both the Joe

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Kunitz on the 8th and the Orion it's

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later in the month

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Europe gets the best view of the

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Draconis but maybe you'll see a few

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orionids closer to the end of the month

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they peak on the 21st you can read about

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moons of the solar system at solar

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system NASA gov / y SS for year of the

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solar system and you can learn about all

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of NASA's missions at WWDC gov that's