[Roccus]

Time for some ignorance.
It’s been about 20 yrs since I viewed the dance of the Jovian moons through a telescope, but if memory serves me right they were always on an almost horizontal plane, not vertical.
What am I missing here?

[DannyTN]

if memory serves me right they were always on an almost horizontal plane, not vertical. What am I missing here?

The picture was taken in Cancun Mexico, so it must be the tequilla.

Other wild assed guesses at reasons:

• season,
• time of night,
• Angle of Jupiter to Earth and Sun.
• Irregular moons
• Your recall is faulty
• Moon shift
• Your laptop is tilted.