Jupiter Today - 20 April 2017

Distances:

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 816144764.13 km from the Sun.

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 669245353.36 km from the Earth.

Positions:

At 0.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 2, 423260.60 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 2, 423402.25 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 3, 422339.31 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum eastern elongation <===
At 18.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 420852.42 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 420042.58 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 669244.18 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 3, 671983.57 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 674535.84 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 676415.01 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 677259.20 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1069547.35 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 2, 1069110.94 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068736.57 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum eastern elongation <===
At 18.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068442.59 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068248.41 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1878032.00 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1876869.32 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1875744.64 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1874663.66 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 3, 1873639.44 km from Jupiter.

Io goes through an apojove at 3 hours 38 minutes UTC at a distance of 423507.14 km.

Earth direction along green line to the left

Sun direction along blue line to the left

Orbits as seen from above.  Moons orbit counter-clockwise.  Black dots represent location of respective moon at 0h, 6h, 12h, 18h, and 24h UTC.

Purple path: Io
Blue path: Europa
Yellow path: Ganymede
Red path: Callisto

Jupiter Satellite Distances:

Events:

Io Eclipse reappears at 1 hour 11.1 minutes
Io Transit begins at 19 hours 59.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit begins at 20 hours 17.0 minutes
Io Transit ends at 22 hours 10.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit ends at 22 hours 29.0 minutes

Europa Transit begins at 15 hours 14.0 minutes
Europa Shadow Transit begins at 15 hours 49.0 minutes
Europa Transit ends at 17 hours 37.0 minutes
Europa Shadow Transit ends at 18 hours 17.0 minutes