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Juno’s first perijove is successful: here is the first picture

NASA reports that the first operational perijove was successful and lots of data are being returned. The press release is

A map showing how Jupiter will appear at the first operational Juno flyby this weekend.

Anticipating the last views from Earth and first views from Juno As ground-based observers are losing Jupiter in the evening

Five pages of news items in the August Journal: JBAA 126 (no.4), 197-200; ‘Jupiter and the Juno mission: the amateur’s

The Juno orbital mission at Jupiter has started.

This news item is on the BAA main page at: https://www.britastro.org/node/7750

My main instrument here is the 0.35-m C14, used at f/7.7 with the ST9XE CCD, plus various other smaller instruments.

My interest in observing comets began in 1974 when Patrick Moore appeared on TV informing me that there was going

On June 14 I was at the Royal Society in London for the first day of a series of meetings

With NASA’s Juno spacecraft due to enter orbit around Jupiter on July 5, the BAA Jupiter Section has posted a