Transit of Jupiter from outer planets

A Jupiter passage in front of the Sun from Saturn, Uranus, Neptune or as seen takes place when Jupiter direct line of sight outer planet - sun crosses.

During the transit Jupiter can be seen from the outer planets as a small black disk moving across the surface of the sun. The Galilean moons of Jupiter can be seen also, but since its angular diameter is from the distant planet of Saturn is only about one arcsecond and correspondingly less, they will be very difficult to detect. The most interesting case is seen from Saturn from a transit of Jupiter. Jupiter would thereby cover a larger part of the sun than any other possible transit, would be involved in the planets of the solar system. According to calculations from the year 1886 by Albert Marth but such transit has not taken place in the last 2000 years and will not take place in the coming years in 2000.

Jupiter's angular diameter is about 40.5 seconds of arc and the sun about 3.2 minutes of arc as seen from Saturn, so that Jupiter covered 4.4% of the disk of the sun. The synodic period of the system Jupiter -Saturn is 19.85887 years ( 7253.45 days ), the corresponding periods of the systems Uranus - Jupiter 13.81195 years ( 5044.81 days ) and Neptune - Jupiter 12.78219 years ( 4668.69 days). The mutual inclination of the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn is 1.25 °. The inclinations of the orbits of Jupiter and Uranus and Jupiter and Neptune be 0.70 ° and 0.94 °.

The finite speed of light can have a significant effect, for example, are light running times in one direction: 122 minutes (Jupiter - Uranus) and 165 minutes ( Sun - Uranus) from the 1997 taking place transit of Jupiter from Uranus.

• Celestial mechanics