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ramnath@nerdpol.ch
ramnath

Quote ESA’s #Jupiter #Icy #Moons Explorer (Juice) returns to #Earth on 19–20 August 2024, to complete the world's first Lunar-Earth gravity assist. Flight controllers will guide the #spacecraft past the #Moon and then Earth itself, ‘braking’ the spacecraft. This manoeuvre may seem counterintuitive but will allow Juice to take a shortcut via #Venus on it's way to #Jupiter.

Juice has already travelled more than 1000 million km to the giant planet but it still has a long way to go even though Jupiter is on average ‘just’ 800 million km away from Earth. Join us as we explain why Juice's journey to Jupiter is taking sooo long.
Published 19th August 2024 (9:23)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=I8jkXMompss

mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

It's a clear #night and #Jupiter and #Venus are bright in the #western #sky and getting closer together in their apparent positions. This is a #photograph of the pair with a 1.6 s exposure. It is also difficult to get a sharp #focus manually as autofocus doesn't really work with objects at infinity and yet effectively points of light. This taken with a 400 mm #telephoto #lens.
Venus and Jupiter in conjunction

Also with long exposures and a heavy lens, even a the tiniest #vibration on the tripod can blur the image, even with the sharpest focus. Here's the same image but cropping around Jupiter. You can see its four biggest satellites, (left to right: #Europa, #Io, #Ganymede and #Callisto, information courtesy of #Stellarium)
Jupiter and its moons

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #Winter #BackyardAstronomy #JovianSystem #Moons

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ramnath@nerdpol.ch
ramnath

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KUNDALINI SHAKTI
FIRE & WATER SERPENTS

#BHADRAPADAS,

#MOONS OF #DEATH & #REBIRTH

Let us consider the pair of #Bhadrapada #Nakshatra’s.

These are lunar houses that transport the utmost extremity of energies.

These lunar stations bring about grand shifts of energy when they are focused upon and worked with. They transfer the energy of Kundalini Shakti.

The Bhadrapada Nakshatra’s connect the Kundalini serpents of #fire and #water, #Moon and #Sun.
https://www.ancient-tantra.com/73-bhadrapadas/

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ramnath@nerdpol.ch
ramnath

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WEBB PHOTOGRAPHS #NEPTUNE'S #RINGS: The James Webb Space Telescope has just captured the clearest view of Neptune’s rings in more than 30 years. NASA relased the new image on Sept. 21st:

"It has been three decades since we last saw these faint, dusty rings, and this is the first time we’ve seen them in infrared light," notes Heidi Hammel, an interdisciplinary scientist for Webb. Some of the rings have not been detected since NASA’s Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to observe Neptune during its flyby in 1989.

The rings of Neptune, like those of #Uranus, are thought to be relatively young; their age is significantly less than that of the #SolarSystem. They were likely created by the collisional fragmentation of onetime inner moons and are made of extremely dark organic compounds processed by radiation.

Webb also captured seven of Neptune’s 14 known #moons. Dominating this Webb portrait of Neptune is a very bright point of light radiating diffraction spikes seen in many of Webb's images, but this is not a star. Rather, this is Neptune’s large and unusual moon, #Triton.
https://spaceweather.com/

mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

Another #night and another #photograph of #Jupiter. This time you can three of its four big #Moons (they are #Ganymede, #Callisto and #Europa).
Photograph of Jupiter and its moons
I've also included the #snapshot from #Stellarium so you can see the names of each.
Stellarium snapshot of Jupiter

If you compare tonight's #image with the #photograph from 11 days ago, you can see how much Jupiter has moved with respect to the background starts of #Capricorn. Planets literally are wanderers.
Former image of Jupiter

Of course, the real question is this: Is Stellarium a good model of reality or is reality a good model of Stellarium...

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #BackyardAstronomy #Planets

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mkwadee@diasp.eu
Khurram Wadee

I think of myself as a hobbyist #photographer interested in many things, including #astronomy and sometimes I get lucky. Tonight, for example, I noticed #Jupiter was close to the #Moon and so I got my #tripod out and tried to #photograph the pair. Currently, both are in #Capricorn and to get both, one needs a longish exposure. Here I used 2 s. This of course means that the Moon's features can't be seen as the lit surface is #overexposed but you can see its unlit side too.

The very nice thing about this image is that you can actually see Jupiter's four largest satellites too, so you could say that the photograph actually shows five #moons in total. Jupiter is forming a triangle here with #DenebAlgedi (bottom left) and #Nashira (bottom right)
The Moon and Jupiter at its moons

By focusing around Jupiter itself, you can see its moons much better. From left to right, you can see #Europa, #Io, #Ganymede and #Callisto. The three #stars forming a diagonal line are, respectively, 45, 44 and 42 #Capricorni (left to right).
Close up of Jupiter and its moons

#MyWork #MyPhoto #CCBYSA #DSLR #Nikon #D7000 #BackyardAstronomy

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