Anthony, this has made Nature's Physics Portal. Thought you might like the PDF as a souvenir. I have downloaded it, but it's too big to post. Try here:
Dennis
I placed it in a new thread.
I used an 8" Celestron SCT, 2x barlow and a Toucam Pro 840. Will try again if the jetstream goes away tomorrow night.
I looked hard at Jupiter this morning around 5am with an 8" reflector and 360x magnification, but no joy. Approx. equatorial transits of Callisto and Io's shadow were no problem to pick up some six hours earlier. I don't think I'm going to see it visually Has anyone observed the "Bird Strike"?
Edit: just saw a report on CN of a possible early sighting at 131x in a 12.5" reflector.
i was outside that night in country mannum an hours drive from the city of adelaide looking at jupiter and trying to get someone from my family as interested as me! alas i was outside freezing but still mesmerized as ever by the beauty of jupiter. what an amazing story!
A quick update, thanks to Paul Rix on CN we now think the impact was sometime between 0615Z and 1400Z. His image at 0615Z shows no sign of the impact site.
If anyone has images of Jupter between 0615Z and (about) 0815Z on July 19 UTC then we'd like to see them.. there's still a window of a couple of hours where the impact site would be visible.
ps this is for all our overseas members, naturally. Australian astronomers could not see Jupiter at that time.
....and one more taken from Melbourne this morning in poor conditions showing how the impact area is now becoming elongated in longitude
Last night was better than most, clearest for ages, but still not dark enough, dam frosty too. Had some reflected light coming from Dandenong and Fountain Gate (grrr).
Must of been about 2-3 degrees where I am, around 11pm...
Is the Bird Strike already being torn apart by the storms?
In case you were wondering, the impact site is still very visible. A low pressure system moved in so seeing is poor but I'm glad to get something (previous nights were terrible). This is at f29 in RGB.
A quick update, thanks to Paul Rix on CN we now think the impact was sometime between 0615Z and 1400Z. His image at 0615Z shows no sign of the impact site.
If anyone has images of Jupter between 0615Z and (about) 0815Z on July 19 UTC then we'd like to see them.. there's still a window of a couple of hours where the impact site would be visible.
ps this is for all our overseas members, naturally. Australian astronomers could not see Jupiter at that time.
cheers, Bird
I wonder if one could look at one of the moons that is on the other side of jupiter at approx the time of the impact and measure any brightening of that moon due to a reflection of the impact?
About the only way of seeing it