{"id":25132,"date":"2022-09-26T11:48:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=25132"},"modified":"2022-09-26T11:48:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:48:39","slug":"jupiter-marks-its-closest-opposition-since-1963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=25132","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter marks its closest opposition since 1963."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"c-column--sidebar\">\n<div class=\"c-newsletter longform\">\n<div class=\"js-form-sidebar\">\n<div id=\"ctct-form-wrapper-0\" class=\"ctct-form-wrapper\" data-form-id=\"255507312\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-column--main\">\n<div class=\"wrapper-post-content\">\n<div class=\"content content--post\">\n<p><em>From Sky and Telescope:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Jupiter reaches opposition on September 26th just 591 million kilometers (367 million miles) from Earth, the closest they&#8217;ll pair for the year. Opposition distances vary depending on where the planet happens to be in its orbit when opposition comes around. The closer perihelion and opposition dates align, the closer the two planets will draw together and the brighter and larger the gas giant will shine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_255507493528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255507493528\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jupiter-in-clouds-corona-August-2022-S.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-feathr-click-track=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-255507493528\" src=\"https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jupiter-in-clouds-corona-August-2022-S-900x554.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jupiter-in-clouds-corona-August-2022-S-900x554.jpg 900w, https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jupiter-in-clouds-corona-August-2022-S-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jupiter-in-clouds-corona-August-2022-S-113x70.jpg 113w, https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jupiter-in-clouds-corona-August-2022-S-768x473.jpg 768w, https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jupiter-in-clouds-corona-August-2022-S.jpg 1152w\" alt=\"Jupiter corona\" width=\"900\" height=\"554\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-255507493528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jupiter is so bright it creates an aureole in a bank of passing clouds earlier this month. Bob King<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>This go-round, Jupiter lines up with Earth just four months shy of its January 21, 2023, perihelion. It hasn&#8217;t been this close since the October 1963 opposition and won&#8217;t be again until October 7, 2129. That&#8217;s why it appears exceptionally large (49.9\u2033 across) and bright (magnitude \u20132.9). But that&#8217;s only half the story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skyandtelescope.org\/astronomy-news\/jupiters-exceptionally-close-opposition\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Sky and Telescope: Jupiter reaches opposition on September 26th just 591 million kilometers (367 million miles) from Earth, the closest they&#8217;ll pair for the year. Opposition distances vary depending on where the planet happens to be in its orbit when opposition comes around. The closer perihelion and opposition dates align, the closer the two &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=25132\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jupiter marks its closest opposition since 1963.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133],"tags":[801],"class_list":["post-25132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-news","tag-jupiter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25133,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132\/revisions\/25133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}