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Hopefully this works. This is meant to be an animated GIF of Io eclipsing Europa on Monday morning 2:19:15 – 2:25:15 am
It compresses 6 minutes into 2 seconds. Io is closest to Jupiter, the Europa, then Ganymede. Callisto is far top left.
Europa fades out an back. Io can be see moving right then jumps back as the video loops. If you watch Europa carefully you can see it jump back the other way.
These mutual eclipses only occur in short groups 6 years apart, at Jupiter’s equinox, when the planes of the moons orbits line up with the sun. Right now is mutual eclipse season!
Sky and Telescope:
https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-news/mutual-event-season-heats-up-at-jupiter/
Observing campaign:
https://www.imcce.fr/recherche/campagnes-observations/phemus/phemu
Predictions:
http://nsdb.imcce.fr/multisat/nsszph517he.htm
Clicking on the image works.
Check out my post on Slooh (no login required)
https://www.slooh.com/my-pictures/show-image/9490534/46af00c581e5656aa1a8663eead0cb57
or if that doesn’t work try:
https://io.slooh.com/prod/2021/05/8783/383b/europa-eclipsed-by-io-2021-05-02-1419-1425.gif
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