10.5281/zenodo.5291803
https://zenodo.org/records/5291803
oai:zenodo.org:5291803
Hurez, Nicolas
Nicolas
Hurez
Matrangolo, Paul-Antoine
Paul-Antoine
Matrangolo
Pennypacker, Carl
Carl
Pennypacker
IAU, OAE
OAE
IAU
Jupiter Moon's Movie2, by Nicolas Hurez, Paul-Antoine Matrangolo, and Carl Pennypacker, United States of America
Zenodo
2021
Astrophotography
Galilean moons
2021-08-25
eng
https://iau.org/public/videos/detail/ann21047e/
10.5281/zenodo.5291802
https://zenodo.org/communities/astro4edu
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Second place in the 2021 IAU OAE Astrophotography Contest, category Galilean moons.
This sequence shows the orbit of the four Galilean moons around the planet Jupiter. Almost two entire orbits of the innermost moon, Io, can be seen, with the other moons (Europa and Ganymede, but in particular Callisto) being further away, orbiting noticeably slower. The images were obtained in 2018 with the Las Cumbres Global Observatory at different locations on Earth, allowing a continuous sequence of images over approximately half a week without gaps during the day. With clear skies and over the course of several nights, the motion of the Galilean moons can also be observed with binoculars (ideally steady your elbows on a surface).
Credit: Nicolas Hurez, Paul-Antoine Matrangolo and Carl Pennypacker/IAU OAE