Amateur astronomers dotted
a brief fracture have of light along the eastern limb of Jupiter. Now we must
wait to see if the planet bears a scar from the impact site.
This is the perfect
time to observe Jupiter. Shines brightly Queen planets in the night sky - That
means clustering and a lot of eyes and cameras are turned on it every night
since about midnight Until Dawn. HAS paid all this early in the morning of
September 10, when two amateur astronomers have captured a spectacular goal
brief lightning in the middle of Jupiter near icts eastern limb.
The first report from
Dan Petersen cam of Racine, Wisconsin observing before dawn with a Meade LX200
12-inch and a binocular head. 400 × Working at he spotted a brilliant flash of a
duration of 2 seconds to 11:35:30 Universal Time on Sept. 10 along the limb of
Jupiter, just inside the southern edge of the dark equatorial belt north of the
planet. Estimated He the brightness about magnitude 6 and situated at 12 °
latitude and 335 ° longitude in System I, although analysis of year the image
by Sean Walker Sky & Telescope Gives values closer + 0.5 ° and 340 °.
During the rainy
remnants of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter in July 1994, the Hubble
Space Telescope captured this double impact: a wide multi-ring fragment G Spot
Caused by a small dark spot and fragment D.
"I thought the
imagery of Jupiter this morning, I aim Decided to INSTEAD observes," Said
Petersen in a message CloudyNights.com. "If I had the imagery I'm sure I
would Have missed webcam Between Adapting and focus settings on each Stock avi
[video clip]. "
Petersen's report
Quickly Reached the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers and the
British Astronomical Association, and there was a network of professional
APÉNDICE. Everyone was hoping for a picture to confirm his observation, which came
from George Hall in Dallas, Texas. Watching from her driveway - and abuse using
a Meade LX200 12-inch - Halll captured the flash into a single image of the CCD
camera.
It is not yet clear whether
the brightness, probably the impact of a small nucleus of a comet or asteroid
year, leave behind a trace of dark combustion in the upper atmosphere of the
planet. Similar explosions in July 2009 and June 2010 have some left APÉNDICE
to see in the future. Based on the image of Hall, planetary astronomer Imke de
Pater (University of California, Berkeley) Estimated queue le fireball was very
similar to That Observed in 2010 - "very interesting, Most Likely no
purpose wreckage."
Purpose That Does not
mean That You should not watch! The middle of Jupiter rotates in 9 hours 50.5
minutes (Called rotation period of the system I) - slightly faster than the
speed of rotation of regions far from the equator (System II) or inside the
planet (System III). Would this could impact the location of the disc approximately
centered on the September 10 at 23:00 UT, Sky & Telescope purpose HAS
RECEIVED no word of confirmation in this window. It was centered again on
September 11 to 9:02 UT (favoring North America) and will be again at 6:52 p.m.
UT (Eastern Europe and Western Asia).
Other moments of
transition from Planned site to the central meridian (Expressed dates and times
in Universal Time):
September 12: 4:43,
14:33;
September 13: 0:24,
10:14, 20:05;
September 14: 5:55,
15:46;
September 15: 1:36,
11:27.
Like all brands of
Jupiter, the site will be closer to the central meridian of Jupiter than to the
limb for 50 minutes before and Effective thesis hours. Currently Jupiter rises
around 22:00 UTC or midnight local time for Europe is high a few hours later,
and is observable throughout the rest of the night.
This event marks the
sixth time we see something hit Jupiter, starting with a fireball recorded by
Voyager 1 flew in 1979 when the famous and impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in
1994. "Even if it ends up being flash 'just a meteor", Franck Marchis
wrote (SETI Institute) in his blog about the event, "it is remarkable that
amateur astronomers are now able to monitor almost continuously the planet
Jupiter.”
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