... A really beautiful animation of Jupiter and two of its satellites sent to us by Carl O'Beirnes, J09 Balbriggan Observatory: . With Jupiter now starting to climb at our latitudes I set back up the C14 to take a few images. ... Thank you Carl! More to come from Jupiter this week: dark spot just appearing in the South hemisphere (Sunday 19th July), and Gallilean satellites o ccultations visible from Ireland starting Friday 24th July. ... International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

... Date : 02/10/2011 . Lieu : Lac Pavin (63) . MatГїriel de prise de vue : C8 sur CG5 + DMK21 avec filtre RGB . ... Lieu : La Garandie . MatГїriel de prise de vue : C8 sur CG5 + DMK21 . ... MatГїriel de prise de vue : C8 sur CG5 + DMK21 + filtre Rouge . ...

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... In this optical CCD frame, taken at Lick Observatory, the dark spots are clearly visible. In fact, these should now be visible through a 4-inch telescope with good image scale and atmospheric conditions. ... HST comparison of Violet and Ultraviolet Images of Dark Holes . ... The contrast is best in the longest wavelength image as Jupiter is fairly dark there due to upper atmospheric absorption by methane. ... True Color IR image (jpeg format) . ... I will post some of those images here. ...

... IAU Colloquium 156 : The Collision of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter . ... Meetings/Workshops . ... Welcome to the WWW homepage for the Spring 1995 meeting entitled The Collision of Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter hosted by the Space Telescope Science Institute and The Johns Hopkins University. ... This meeting is also sponsored by the IAU as IAU Colloquium 156. ... Here is the official meeting announcement in ASCII format. Here is the official meeting program in ASCII format. ...

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The giant planet Jupiter has four large moons, discovered by Galileo and visible through good binoculars. ... A dynamo is created in a magnetic field by an electric circuit, part of which is moving relative to the rest (additional conditions must also be met). ... Furthermore, the plasma between them conducts electricity very well along its magnetic field lines, which act as if they were wires connecting Io and the planet (drawing). ... Exploration" home page (index) Glossary . ...

... Beneath Jupiter's Clouds . ... 23.01.1996 . ... Credit: NASA , IRTF Explanation: This near-infrared image of Jupiter was made using instrumentation at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility, located on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii , in support of the Galileo mission to Jupiter . The brightest spots indicated by the false red shading are relatively clear areas and represent glimpses beneath the outer layer of Jupiter's obscuring cloud tops . ... Publications with keywords: Jupiter - clouds . ...

... Krupp et al., etc ELW-2009 Space Research Institute Jupiter specifics weak solar wind: strong magnetic field fast rotation: Io outflow: internal effects dominate powerful energizing environment strong outflow of cold heavy ions Space Research Institute ELW-2009 rotating magnetosphere electric potential of rotation at Jupiter is 400 MV, solar wind only 1 MV at Earth both are ~ 100 kV Europa location ...

... January 23, 1996 . Beneath Jupiter's Clouds . Credit: NASA , IRTF . Explanation: This near-infrared image of Jupiter was made using instrumentation at NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility, located on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii , in support of the Galileo mission to Jupiter . The brightest spots indicated by the false red shading are relatively clear areas and represent glimpses beneath the outer layer of Jupiter's obscuring cloud tops . ... About APOD | ... NASA Technical Rep.: ...

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... 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. ...

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 . ...

... Artist?s conception of the collision of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 with Jupiter, as seen from the Galileo spacecraft. At the time of the first impact, the comet fragments will be much farther apart than shown in this illustration. ... One orbit, computer May 18, 1993 by Syuichi Nakano, showed that the comet passed close to Jupiter in July 1992, and would pass within 45,000 kilometers of the center of Jupiter in July, 1994. ... The fragments of Shoemaker-Levy 9 move around Jupiter. ...

Giant Jupiter. Jupiter . ... Jupiter has no solid surface that is why speaking about its dimensious point the radius of the upper border line of the clouds, where the presseru is about 10 KPa; radius of Jupiter on the equator is 71400 km. ... The Jupiter satellites. ... Nowadays 16 satellites of the Jupiter are known: Adrastea, Mitis, Amaltea , Phina,then 4 Galilei satellites: Io , Europe , Hanimed , Callisto , Leda, Aimalia, Zicitea, Elara, Ananke, Carme, Pasipe and Sinope. ... Jupiter's ring. ...

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... 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. ...

Jupiter is the largest of the nine planets, more than 10 times the diameter of Earth and more than 300 times its mass. ... The mean density of Earth is 5.245 times that of water. The pull of gravity on Jupiter at the top of the clouds at the equator is 2.4 times as great as gravity's pull at the surface of Earth at the equator. ... It is tipped about 11њ to Jupiter's axis of rotation, similar to Earth's, but it is also offset from the center of Jupiter by about 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles). ...