Hows this....Anthony, you have 4,670,000 separate entries on Google!!!
Some aren't related to you....but what the heck, claim them all!!
A more accurate metric would be to use the search "anthony wesley" (with the quotation marks) which returns 49,500 results, the majority which would probably be attributed to bird
Have made an avi from last nights effort to capture "Bird's strike" and was fairly happy with it. Not sure how to post it, but I managed to capture two shadow transits, bird's strike, a moon exiting jupiters surface and the GRS all in the one attempt.
Ive posted a few cropped shots of 200x200 pixels
Have made an avi from last nights effort to capture "Bird's strike" and was fairly happy with it. Not sure how to post it, but I managed to capture two shadow transits, bird's strike, a moon exiting jupiters surface and the GRS all in the one attempt.
Ive posted a few cropped shots of 200x200 pixels
Nice work Allan - I see that you managed to beat the atrocious seeing!
Good to see the Brisbanites getting amongst it...even if the conditions were not kind.
I wonder how much longer we'll be able to capture this object....and if we'll ever get a break from the JS which seems to have been over us for weeeeeeeks!!!!!!!!!
Nice work Allan - I see that you managed to beat the atrocious seeing!
Cheers
Dennis
I think that using a small scope with not too much magnification helped when Jupiter was high. The seeing was atrocious as you well know and I could not see anything really at the eyepiece. When the jetstream goes then Ill drag out the 10" and put higher magnification on it. Anyway, thanks Bird, Matt and Dennis for kind comments. I just wanted to image this thing as I missed the last imact on Jupiter.
I'm a late-comer to this thread, finally got to the last page.
I would just like to pass on my warmest congratulations on this most magnificent, once-in-a-lifetime discovery.
What is the likelihood of the scar remaining on the surface of Jupiter? Will it be like the Great Red Spot -- there for eons? If it's like the GRS, your name will go down in the history books. When children in future years look to mighty Jupiter and see the black scar, they'll be told of your story.
The thought is so humbling.
Has Kim from CAS contacted you yet to come and talk to us at the next meeting?
I guess it's unsurprising that the spin doctors only said "NASA this", or "UCLA that" regarding the impact... It pisses me off that Anthony isn't given full credit for the discovery: "an amateur astronomer" doesn't cut it - even if they had mentioned Australia.
