A new, old Jupiter
Aug 03, 2022
3 minutes
by Bob King
upiter reaches opposition this year on September 27th (Australian time), when it sits astride the celestial equator in Pisces, shines at magnitude -2.9 and presents a disk 49.9” across. It’s also unusually close this year. That’s because the planet will be at (nearest to the Sun) less than four months after opposition. As a result, on the 26th Jupiter beams from a distance of just 591 million kilometres. To find a
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