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Originally Posted by hector
My WOW observation was the impact of ShoemakerLevy 9 into Jupiter.
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I would have to agree with you Andrew for wow factor, although
not really deep sky, it is definately also one of my most
memorable moments at the scope.
I was observing Jupiter on the night you say, through my 8" F7 homemade
Newt, and my mate was two suburbs away simultaneously looking
through his 10" Newt. He was inspired to build his after seeing mine
We were talking on those old huge chunky cordless phones while
looking through our respective eyepieces.
The most easily visible fragment impact that amateurs had a chance
of seeing was due that night , Adelaide time.
He had seen a few already but I couldn't see them easily in my slighly
smaller scope.
Then the biggest fragment impact rotated into view.
He called me and said, "surely Steve you can see that one?"
I took a look...and yes, I could see a cometary fragment impact on the
face of Jupiter!
Not sure if they lasted months tho Andrew, I thought they were
gone after a few rotations?
Steve