{"id":3087,"date":"2019-08-22T19:53:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2019-08-22T19:53:22","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T19:53:22","slug":"jupiter-and-moons-august-22nd-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/jupiter-and-moons-august-22nd-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter and Moons August 22nd 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the sky gets dark tonight, a transit of Ganymede’s shadow will be in progress, as will the great red spot.<\/p>\n

The first two illustrations in the diagram below show the view at 21:20 UT.<\/p>\n

Only 3 of the Galilean satellites are visible.
\nIo is to the east of Jupiter, but is hidden within Jupiter’s Shadow.<\/p>\n

An hour later Io has emerged from the shadow and will be easily visible.
\nAll four Galileans will be visible once again as seen in the lower diagram.<\/p>\n

Ganymede’s shadow transit is still in progress and will move off Jupiter’s disk by 21:54 UT.<\/p>\n

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As the sky gets dark tonight, a transit of Ganymede’s shadow will be in progress, as will the great red spot. The first two illustrations in the diagram below show the view at 21:20 UT. Only 3 of the Galilean satellites are visible. Io is to the east of Jupiter, but is hidden within Jupiter’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Jupiter and Moons August 22nd 2019 - Star-Gazing","description":"As the sky gets dark tonight, a transit of Ganymede's shadow will be in progress, as will the great red spot. The first two illustrations in the diagram below s"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}