How the planets look RIGHT NOW...

[great_bear]

Sorry if this is an FAQ, but is there a web site that hosts pictures of how the planets look RIGHT NOW - or at least in the last 24 hours?

When observing the planets you often see "hints" of certain details, and it's nice to look up images and see what those details are - but for this to work on something like Jupiter - whose looks are constantly changing - you need up-to-date images.

Where is the best place to find such up-to-the-minute photos of each planet?

[barkis]

Orbital positions for 2011, but I guess this is not what you're looking for.

Ron.

http://www.njaa.org/planets/sspositions/opp.html

[lukebl]

Winjupos is good. It shows the current view of the planets and their phase and surface markings, if that's what you mean.

Download it here

[Demonperformer]

Cdc also shows these

[great_bear]

Not quite, when I say RIGHT NOW - I mean LITERALLY so.

Jupiter looks different on every viewing - every storm is unique, and every day shows subtle variations in the banding and mottling.

So I'm after something (like a website for example) that has real photographs of the planets from the last 24 hours - *not* a simulation based on old data.

Any ideas anyone?

[Andrew*]

Sounds brilliant. Let me know if you find such a site! Might be worth starting something, that users can upload pictures onto a timeline or something.

Andrew

[Ags]

I made a suggestion a while back that we could add planetary images uploaded to sgl to a timeline - the only info you would have to add is planet name and UTC time - but no-one reacted to the site suggestion... :-(

[cgarry]

I made a suggestion a while back that we could add planetary images uploaded to sgl to a timeline - the only info you would have to add is planet name and UTC time - but no-one reacted to the site suggestion... :-(

That is a good suggestion!