Galilean Satellite Mutual Occultations and Eclipses in 1996-1998
The next mutual event season is approaching! During this period, the
Earth and the Sun pass through the orbital planes of the Jovian
satellites, from South to North, so that the satellites eclipse and
occult one another. The main sequence of events occurs throughout
1997, but there are a few grazing events in June 1996, and also some
events in January-April 1998.
Here is an ASCII table of predictions
of all mutual events, from Jean-Eudes Arlot.
Io Occultations
There will many excellent occultations of Io by the other satellites.
Infared photometry of these can be used for high-resolution mapping of
Io's volcanic hot spots, at even higher effective spatial resolution
than the Galileo observations which will be made through the same
period. Here is an ASCII table of
predictions of (nearly) all Io occultations, adapted from
Jean-Eudes Arlot's table by John Spencer.