By Jove!

I'm working in Italy for the summer (no, seriously) and at the weekend I visited Venezia (Venice) the city famous for being built in the middle of a lagoon. While walking through Piazza San Marco (St. Mark's Square) on Saturday night, I spotted Jupiter shining brightly in the southern sky. I managed to get an image of Jupiter appearing next to one of the columns where St Mark's Square meets the Grand Canal. It somehow seemed appropriate to observe Jupiter in the city where Galileo first used a telescope to discover its Moons.

Jupiter
Jupiter seen next to one of the columns at the edge of Piazza San Marco CREDIT: Stuart

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Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Monday 26th Jun 2006 (11:08 CEST) | 5 Comments | Permalink

Comments: By Jove!

Wow, that is seriously cool, with the link to Galileo and all. Hope you are having a nice summer, anything Astronomically interesting in your Summer Job?

Posted by Ian Musgrave on Monday 26th Jun 2006 (12:53 UTC)

My job is temporary but does have an astronomical connection. I'm helping with the development of a future spacecraft to observe the cosmic microwave background. The team I'm working with is pretty international which makes the 2006 World Cup more exciting too!

Posted by Stuart on Monday 26th Jun 2006 (13:20 UTC)

OH! AWESOME shot!!!

Posted by Rob on Monday 26th Jun 2006 (14:24 UTC)

Yeah, well we just got kicked out of the World Cup, but working on a new spacecraft must be pretty exciting.

Posted by Ian Musgrave on Tuesday 27th Jun 2006 (11:33 UTC)

The Italians that I'm working with were pretty happy about that ;-)

Posted by Stuart on Tuesday 27th Jun 2006 (18:43 UTC)

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