{"id":3341,"date":"2010-11-22T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/jupiters-moons-utility\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:00:05","slug":"jupiters-moons-utility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/jupiters-moons-utility\/","title":{"rendered":"Jupiter&#8217;s Moons Utility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/jupiter.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 288px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/jupiter.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542324071687687362\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Sky and Telescope&#8221; has a nice collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/observing\/objects\/javascript\">on-line astronomy utilities<\/a>. One of my favorites displays the positions of Jupiter&#8217;s Galilean moons. It also gives you some nice heads up on the transit and eclipses of the moons. Its fun to play with the &#8220;+10 minute&#8221; button and see how they move around. The view you see above is fairly close to what I see through my telescope (but Jupiter&#8217;s stripes are not quite so pronounced). You can get the utility for free &#8212; you just have to fill out a registration form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Sky and Telescope&#8221; has a nice collection of on-line astronomy utilities. One of my favorites displays the positions of Jupiter&#8217;s Galilean moons. It also gives you some nice heads up on the transit and eclipses of the moons. Its fun to play with the &#8220;+10 minute&#8221; button and see how they move around. The view &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/jupiters-moons-utility\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jupiter&#8217;s Moons Utility&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3343,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3341\/revisions\/3343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}