| Home > Solar System > Jupiter |
Object Name
Brief description of object
| Right Ascension | 00h 00m 00s | Best Seen | 1/1 - 12/15 |
| Declination | 00° 00' 00" | Magnitude | 0.0 |
| Apparent Separation | -- | Constellation | const-name |
Actual |
Compared to Sun |
|
| Distance | -- ly | -- |
| Separation | -- | -- |
| Orbital Period | -- | -- |
| Revolution Period | -- | -- |
| Rotation Period | -- | -- |
| Diameter (average) | -- | -- |
| Diameter - equatorial | -- | -- |
| Diameter - polar | -- | -- |
| Diameter Visible Portion | -- | -- |
| Diameter Entire Nebula | -- | -- |
| Actual Brightness | -- | -- |
| Surface Temperature | -- F°/C° | -- |
| Average Cloud Temperature | -- F°/C° | -- |
| Escape Velocity | -- | -- |
| Number of Stars | -- | -- |
| Age | -- | -- |
| Magnitude | -- | -- |
| Mass | -- | -- |
| Surface Gravity | -- | -- |
| Surface Composition (by mass) | 74% hydrogen 24% helium 2% everything else |
same |
| Galactic Type | -- | -- |
| Integrated Spectral Type | -- | G2 V |
| Spectral Type | -- | G2 V |
| Density (gram/cubic cm) | -- | -- |
What To Look For Through The Telescope
-
Recommended eyepiece: 26mm or 40 mm.
-
Jupiter will appear as a bright white ball with brown belts. The different colors are caused by different layers of gas in Jupiter’s atmosphere.
Object Information
-
Jupiter is a large ball of hydrogen and helium gas. This is the same material that makes up the Sun. In fact, if Jupiter had 100 times more material (hydrogen and helium) it would have become a star.
-
Jupiter has three cloud layers.
a. The top layer is white, composed of ammonia which freezes at the low temperatures of Jupiter’s upper atmosphere (-193 deg. F).
b. The middle layer is brown (ammonium hydrosulfide), and can only be seen through holes in the top white cloud layer. The brown belts are really high pressure regions in the atmosphere - similar to high pressure regions here on Earth.
c. The lowest layer is blue (water). Since the ability to see the blue clouds requires holes in both the white and brown cloud layers at the same place, they are rarely seen.
| Home > Solar System > Jupiter > References | top |
References
| Item | Updated | Notes |
| ... | -- | |