Abstract
While the Earth’s own Moon is the only one that can be explored in detail with a ground-based telescope, it’s not the only one that can be seen. Even a small backyard telescope can be used to view the four largest moons of Jupiter, and larger telescopes have detected a host of moons orbiting around of the various planets of the Solar System. Looking like tiny dots of light to an Earth-based observer, almost everything we know about these mini-worlds comes from space probes. Nevertheless, with a bit of imagination they make fascinating destinations for the telescopic tourist—as this chapter shows.
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