Jupiter Today | 05 May 2017

Distances:

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 816069006.02 km from the Sun.

At 0 hours UTC, Jupiter is 681574089.05 km from the Earth.

Positions and Motions:

At 0.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 420226.19 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 420172.40 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Western Elongation <===
At 12.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 4, 421318.32 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 1, 422791.21 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Io is in quadrant 1, 423502.12 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 677012.14 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 677132.90 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 676073.37 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 674054.90 km from Jupiter.
    ===> Maximum Western Elongation <===
At 24.00 hours UTC, Europa is in quadrant 4, 671463.68 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068596.12 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068420.54 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068343.89 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068372.54 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Ganymede is in quadrant 3, 1068505.60 km from Jupiter.

At 0.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1886523.03 km from Jupiter.
At 6.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1885224.78 km from Jupiter.
At 12.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1883917.15 km from Jupiter.
At 18.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1882611.10 km from Jupiter.
At 24.00 hours UTC, Callisto is in quadrant 2, 1881311.29 km from Jupiter.

Io goes through an perijove at 3 hours 14 minutes UTC at a distance of 420024.94 km.
Europa goes through an apojove at 3 hours 36 minutes UTC at a distance of 677231.43 km.
Ganymede goes through an perijove at 13 hours 23 minutes UTC at a distance of 1068341.07 km.

Events:

Io Shadow Transit begins at 0 hours 6.0 minutes
Io Transit ends at 1 hour 40.0 minutes
Io Shadow Transit ends at 2 hours 17.0 minutes
Io Occultation disappears at 20 hours 38.0 minutes
Io Eclipse reappears at 23 hours 29.1 minutes

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

Orbital Ribbons: These are the spacial and temporal connections between the four Jovian Moons