Juno, discovery, characteristics

Juno was discovered on November 19th of 1996. I used my refractor telescope of 90 mm. of diameter & 1400 mm. of focal distance. The night was not good. Because Moon was close to Juno asteroid, 40º field, only. & its phase was first quarter in 60%.

Anecdotely, Juno was a magnitude of 8.3 & close its opposition at Cetus constellation, close to a Ceti, only 9º to north of it & the same right ascension.

By way, I used the informatics program of Astronomy, Dance of Planets, where it was indicated the coordinates (right ascension & declination) of Juno. With this instrument & good night I pointed out with my telescope from Inca town (Mallorca isl&, Spain) to a Ceti star to begin.

Field zone is a poor zone of stars, by way, It was not difficult to find at first time, & I saw it with two others stars whose magnitudes was 9.5, & Juno was 8.3, by way a beautiful triangle. Other important characteristic was the Juno's color was between red & orange.

Observations was made prodigality to 18h.50m. Universal Time of November, 19th of 1996. Next you can see this field during that night.

They are omitted the decimals points to magnitude of stars. By way, a star with a 100 is corresponded to magnitude 10.0. Discovery date of Juno asteroid was on November, 19th of 1996. Juno is an asteroid who excentricity is 0.2568, it has a period of tranlation about 4.37 years & a inclination with the ecliptic of 12.97º.

By the other h&, with a Java program that I found on the net, & thanks to Osamu Ajiki of AstroArts&y Ron Baalke of JPL, you can see the asteroid orbit, distans in relationship to Sun 6 Earth at Solar System for any date.

In classic mythology Juno wife of Jupiter & Mars mother is the Roman goddess. Dese dates very old assimilated its functions to those of the Greek Hera, auqneu seemed to personify the lunar principle. Form leaves from tríada capitolina with Jupiter & Mierva, receiving then the invocation of Iuno Regina. It was invoked to him, nevertheless, with other epítetos. Iono Lucina is called to him, by to have perhaps asimiliado to a smaller goddess of this name, protecting to the women en cintas & presiding over the childbirths, in addition to guarding by new born, reason why it is also called to him, Consenruatrix In his honor were celebrated the March first the celebrations of the Matronalia, that dedicated the married women to him of Rome which they requested of the goddess protection & fecundity. This fecah, the Calendas of March, agreed with the Mars birth & the anniversary of La Paz between Sabins & Romans.