... Credit: Mike Salway Explanation: South is toward the top in this frame from a stunning movie featuring Jupiter and moons recorded last Thursday from the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. ... In the early frame above, Ganymede , the largest moon in the solar system, is off the lower right limb of the planet, while intriguing Europa is visible against Jupiter's cloud tops, also near the lower right. ... Also finally erupting into view at the right, is Jupiter's volcanic moon, Io . ...

... 2007 March 29 . Jupiter Moon Movie . ... In the early frame above, Ganymede , the largest moon in the solar system, is off the lower right limb of the planet, while intriguing Europa is visible against Jupiter's cloud tops, also near the lower right. ... In later frames, as planet and moons rotate (right to left), red spot junior moves behind Jupiter's left edge while the Great Red Spot itself comes into view from the right. ... About APOD | ...

... Astronomy Pictures . ... Jupiter . Jupiter from ANU's 24-inch telescope . ... Title: Jupiter from ANU's 24-inch telescope . Description: Several images of Jupiter from ANU's 24-inch telescope, Siding Spring Observatory. Lower half of picture: Close-up of Jupiter and the moon Ganymede, just before Ganymede "transits" (passes across) the face of Jupiter Upper half of picture: The image in the middle of the bottom row shows the shadow of Ganymede on the face of Jupiter about 30 minutes later. ...

... Image at four different wavelengths of the scattered light from the TW Hya protoplanetary disk. The images come from the Hubble Space Telescope Instruments (upper left) STIS--visible, (upper right) NICMOS--1.1 micron, (lower left) NICMOS--1.7 micron, and (lower right) NICMOS--2.2 micron. The images are scaled by the distance in the disk from the star squared to highlight a gap observed halfway out in the disk. ... Scattered Light Images of Young Circumstellar Disks . ...

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... Bitesize Astronomy . ... Keep Bad Astronomy close to your heart, and help make me filthy rich. ... This image is a single frame of a GREAT animation made of several images of Jupiter and its moons by Antonio Cidadao. You can actually watch the moons orbit Jupiter! ... So it surprises me that no ancient texts describe the moons of Jupiter. ... If Jupiter were painted black, the four moons would be pretty easily seen with the naked eye from a dark site. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

... Historical Data . Orbital Data . Physical Data . ... Sun . ... Jupiter . ... Saturn . ... William Herschel . ... William Cranch Bond . ... William Henry Pickering . Uranus . ... 1986 . Voyager 2 . ... William Lassell . ... J. Christy Key: Name Name of the planet or satellite. Orbits Sun or planet about which it orbits. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... SUN MOON MERCURY VENUS MARS, JUPITER SATURN . ... Observing . ... Why Join? ... Jupiter joins Venus in the early evening . ... That more brilliant one is Venus, and it s currently having its best showing for northern observers of 2015 as it shines brightest and appears highest in the evening sky. ... Only the Full Moon itself climbing higher in the southeastern sky this evening appears brighter. ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

Whoever looked up at the sky at dusk on Monday, 1st December was fortunate enough to see one of the most beautiful night-sky views of the year тАУ a massing of planetary bodies in the south-west. The gas giant planet, Jupiter, was nearly in conjunction with bright, тАШevening starтАЩ, Venus, and the Moon. ... The images show, respectively, the telescope and Venus emerging from behind the Moon, after the end of the occultation, while Jupiter is above and to the right. ...

Blue Moon, What Is It? ... Moon | ... By popular acclaim, the second Full Moon of a calendar month is called a Blue Moon. ... If the last Full Moon of this calendar year comes after the December solstice but before New Year's Day, then it's inevitable -- the following year will have an "Old Style" Blue Moon. ... There are always thirteen Full Moons in a calendar year that hosts a "New Style" Blue Moon, and almost always twelve Full Moons during a calendar year that features an "Old Style" Blue Moon. ...

... Shevchenko Vladislav Vladimirovich . ... Position: Head of Department of Lunar and Planetary Research, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Doctor of Physics and Mathematics. ... L. Johnson Space Center - Lunar and Planetary Institute. ... Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Universitetsky 13, Moscow, 119899 , Russia, . ... V.I.Chikmachev, S.G.Pugacheva and V.V.Shevchenko, Sternberg State Astronomical Institute, Moscow University, Moscow, chik@sai.msu.ru ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Planets . ... Monthly Sky Notes . ... October . ... By admin October 8, 2010 Posted in: Monthly Sky Notes . A giant from close up: an image made using data from the Cassini probe which flew past Jupiter in 2000. ... As it is so far from us, it takes JupiterтАЩs light a significant time to reach us тАУso when you see Jupiter tonight you are seeing it as it was 35€а minutes in the past. ... Posted October 12, 2010 at 11:15 PM . ... Astronotes . ...

To see the manner in which position of planets and their coordinates vary with time click on icons with arrows Right or Left in menu bar. ... The current moment of time and object coordinates are therewith displayed. ... Clicking on icons with symbols of sun or crescent leads to appearance of images of the Sun or the Moon in that point of the sky which correspond to their coordinates in current moment unless it lies within not displayed region; see below). ...

... Comet Tutorial . ... On July 1, 1993 an image was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that clearly shows at least 15 individual fragments in one image frame of the train. ... This made an accurate orbit (or orbits) difficult to determine; however, after numerous observations of the comet, astronmers determined that the comet had passed within 96,000 kilometers (60,000 miles) of the center of Jupiter or 25,000 kilometers (16,000 miles) from the cloud tops during the July 8, 1992, approach. ...

. Aristarchus was extremely clever and also figured out a way to determine the ratio of distances between the earth and the moon and the earth and the sun. While wrong, at least he reasoned that the sun was much farther from the earth than the moon. Just Try and Follow this! . Summary of Greek Science .

... He will give you your keys back. Go outside and start your bike. ... Get gas tank and hose. ... She will sneak off in her car. ... Use the hose with cap. ... Use the controls to lift the purple car up. ... Get on bike and leave on road going up. ... Get on bike and go back to the mink farm. ... Get off the bike and look at the sign to the right. ... Get back on bike and ride to the left. ... Get on bike and ride east. Get off bike and disconnect ramp. Get on bike and jump the ramp. ...

In ancient times the solar system was thought to be the whole Universe, so the study of planetary motions was cosmology. ... The planets other than the Moon and Sun generally move West to East through the stars, but occasionally stop and move in the opposite direction ( retrograde motion). In order to explain the retrograde motion of the planets, the geocentric model of the Solar System shown above puts the planets on small circles called epicycles . ...

... There has been a heated public discussion in the past few years about whether our ninth planet is really deserving of the name. Since Pluto orbits a star, and is much less luminous, it certainly satisfies the definition we have above. The problem is actually not with Pluto, but with a very large number of other bodies in our Solar System which also satisfy this definition, but which are not called planets. Perhaps the most notable of these is Ceres, the largest asteroid. ... Planet . ...

... CLOSE_TO_CCD_BORDER This event was immediately next to a border of the CCD, so that part of its charge may have been lost. CLOSE_TO_CCD_WINDOW This event was immediately next to a border of the current CCD window (when not in full frame mode), so that part of its charge may have been lost. ... CLOSE_TO_DEADPIX This event was immediately next (to the left, right, above or below but not diagonally) to a dead pixel, so that part of its charge may have been lost. ...

. This is a new popup window - close it when you are done . Submitted by John Buonomo on 05/26/2013 23:26:38 . Planetary Conjunction 05-26-2013 . Mercury top, Venus Lower Right Jupiter lower Left Earth bottom right 1/2 our Solar system in same image ;) taken this evening . Logon to post a follow-up comment or review comments from others . Copyright (c) Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, Inc. About Us Contact Us