Distance of planets from Earth Calculator
Calculates the azimuth, elevation angle and distance of the planets from Earth. | |||
| |||
azimuth angle: north=0, east=90, south=180, west=270 degree |
- Purpose of use
- solar calculation
[1] 2022/12/24 07:19 60 years old level or over / A retired person / A little /
- Purpose of use
- Find best dates for planetary photography (closest distances and/or highest elevation angles).
- Comment/Request
- Had all I needed, thanks!
[2] 2021/09/30 10:21 50 years old level / An engineer / Useful /
- Purpose of use
- Developing an earthquake model, and looking for correlations between planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars) distance from the earth.
- Comment/Request
- Wonder if there a software exist that will provide planetary distances from the earth for a given date and time. Also, wonder NASA has these calculations available online for somebody like me to use.
[3] 2021/01/30 15:26 60 years old level or over / A teacher / A researcher / Very /
- Purpose of use
- To help compute exact time of actual straight-line Jupiter/Uranus/Earth alignment, compared to usual apparent straight-line Jupiter/Uranus/Earth alignment.
[4] 2020/06/28 05:52 60 years old level or over / A retired person / Very /
- Purpose of use
- Space Aliens
- Comment/Request
- Crucial for observation purposes in the study of potential space aliens
[5] 2020/03/14 15:26 40 years old level / An office worker / A public employee / Very /
- Purpose of use
- Amateur Astronomy
- Comment/Request
- What about adding the angular size of planets to the result table?
[6] 2020/02/03 17:13 60 years old level or over / A teacher / A researcher / Very /
- Purpose of use
- distance to mars on a date in the future - SF novel
[7] 2019/11/05 14:54 60 years old level or over / A retired person / Useful /
- Purpose of use
- curiosity
- Comment/Request
- a visible color diagram will make more interactive
[8] 2019/09/17 09:40 30 years old level / An engineer / Useful /
- Purpose of use
- im trying to find the distance between earth and Jupiter at a very specific time
- Comment/Request
- This helped me a lot on a personal project!
[9] 2019/07/09 17:35 20 years old level / High-school/ University/ Grad student / Very /
- Purpose of use
- Calculate distance to the furthest object I have ever seen in daylight in a clear blue sky with my naked eye: Jupiter at 7:15am EST on January 31, 2019. It was 878 million kms distant.
[10] 2019/02/05 16:01 60 years old level or over / A retired person / Very /
To improve this 'Distance of planets from Earth Calculator', please fill in questionnaire.
- The hyperlink to [Distance of planets from Earth]