The Planet Jupiter

Jupiter at half past nine on the first night of November, 1880.

Chart: The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings
Plate: Plate IX
Astronomer: Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
Date: 1881
Held by: New York Public Library · via Wikimedia Commons

Plate IXas observed November 1, 1880, 9.30 p.m.

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The story

Plate IX of The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1881, from a pastel by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. He drew Jupiter on November 1, 1880, at half past nine in the evening. The planet was being watched closely then. The Great Red Spot, the largest storm in the Solar System, sitting 22 degrees south of Jupiter's equator, had been seen since September 1831, and in 1878 continuous observation of it began. Trouvelot had spent a year at the U.S. Naval Observatory's 26-inch refractor in 1875. Here the giant is set down in colour on a single autumn evening, the way it looked to one patient eye.

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