Jupiter will enter retrograde movement,
halting its ordinary eastward motion by the
constellations, and turning to maneuver westwards as a substitute.
This reversal of path is a phenomenon that each one the photo voltaic system’s
outer planets periodically bear, a couple of months earlier than they attain
opposition.

The retrograde movement is attributable to the Earth’s personal movement across the Solar.
Because the Earth circles the Solar, our perspective adjustments, and this causes the obvious positions of objects to
transfer from side-to-side within the sky with a one-year interval. This nodding movement is super-imposed on the planet’s
long-term eastward movement by the constellations.

The diagram under illustrates this. The gray dashed arrow exhibits the Earth’s sight-line
to the planet, and the diagram on the proper exhibits the planet’s apparently motion throughout the sky as seen from
the Earth:

The retrograde movement of a planet within the outer photo voltaic system.
Not drawn to scale.

2024–2025 apparition of Jupiter

Observing Jupiter

Jupiter enters retrograde movement as its 2024–2025 apparition
will get underway, though it has already been seen for some weeks within the pre-dawn sky.

Its celestial coordinates because it enters retrograde movement might be:

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

From Los Angeles , it will likely be seen within the morning sky, turning into accessible round 22:41, when it reaches an altitude of seven° above your japanese horizon. It’s going to then attain its highest level within the sky at 05:03, 78° above your southern horizon. Will probably be misplaced to daybreak twilight round 06:35, 66° above your south-western horizon.