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Table spacing may be messed up but numbers follow. Note that these are angular diameters at zenith of an idealised flat disc. The actual angular size of Jupiter from the nearer moons will be larger since the tangent cone that fits the sphere of Jupiter is wider than the cone fitting a disc...

Jupiter 71492
Moon orbit (000 km) radius km size from Jupiter size of Jupiter
Metis 128 20 0.0406 103.35
Adrastea 129 10 0.0199 102.37
Amalthea 181 98 0.1025 66.28
Thebe 222 50 0.0381 50.82
Io 422 1815 0.5934 23.06
Europa 671 1569 0.2999 13.60
Ganymede 1070 2631 0.3019 8.19
Callisto 1883 2400 0.1518 4.52
Leda 11094 8 0.000083 0.74
Himalia 11480 93 0.000934 0.72
Lysithea 11720 18 0.000177 0.70
Elara 11737 38 0.000373 0.70
Ananke 21200 15 0.000081 0.39
Carme 22600 20 0.000102 0.36
Pasiphae 23500 25 0.000122 0.35
Sinope 23700 18 0.000087 0.35

Earth 6378.15
Moon orbit (000 km) radius km size from Earth size of Earth
Luna 384 1738 0.53 1.94

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