Jupiter passage from Saturn, Neptune or Uranus

A Jupiter passage in front of the sun from Saturn , Uranus or Neptune takes place when Jupiter directly crosses the line of sight of the outer planet - the sun.

During the transit , Jupiter can be seen from the outer planets as a small black disk moving across the surface of the sun. The Galilean moons of Jupiter can also be seen, but since their angular diameter is only about one arc second from Saturn and correspondingly less from the more distant planets, they will be very difficult to see. The most interesting case is a transit of Jupiter from Saturn. Jupiter would cover a larger part of the sun than any other possible transit involving planets of the solar system . According to calculations made by Albert Marth in 1886 , however, such a transit has not taken place in the last 2000 years and will not take place in the 2000 years to come.

Jupiter's angular diameter is approximately 40.5 arc seconds and that of the Sun is 3.2 arc minutes from Saturn, so Jupiter covers 4.4% of the Sun's disk. The synodic period of the Jupiter-Saturn system is 19.85887 years (7253.45 days), the corresponding periods of the Uranus- Jupiter systems 13.81195 years (5044.81 days) and Neptune- Jupiter 12.78219 years (4668.69 Days). The mutual inclination of the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn is 1.25 °. The inclinations of the orbits of Jupiter and Uranus or Jupiter and Neptune are 0.70 ° and 0.94 °, respectively.

The finiteness of the speed of light can have a considerable effect, for example light travel times in one direction: 122 minutes (Jupiter-Uranus) and 165 minutes (Sun-Uranus) for the 1997 transit of Jupiter from Uranus.

Passages in our solar system
Venus	earth	Mars	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune
Mercury	Mercury	Mercury	Mercury	Mercury	Mercury	Mercury
	Venus	Venus	Venus	Venus	Venus	Venus
		earth	earth	earth	earth	earth
			Mars	Mars	Mars	Mars
				Jupiter	Jupiter	Jupiter
	moon	Deimos			Saturn	Saturn
		Phobos				Uranus