Comet Impact on moon of Jupiter?

[frxzogg]

First off, excellent image sequence - I know how hard it is to make even one frame, let along enough for a rotation, let alone while a transit is happening... The last frame where a shadow is visible shows a perfect circle for the shadow and a perfect circle for the moon, which is now out of transit. No debris anywhere. A "Mickey Mouse Ears" effect persists in some later frames, but it's probably due to vibration in the mount or periodic error in the drive, giving it the "pendulum" effect.

[chaosmaster07]

good shots

[Beasile]

Hey Thunderf00t, a few minutes before posting this I'm watching this TV show "A travelers guide to the planets" on national geographic channel, about Jupiter. I didn't catch the exact date (no dvr), but in 2009 an amature astronomer in Australia captured an impact on Jupiter. Chances are small, but perhaps what you saw was a real impact on Jupiter, and what you saw was the same thing that astronomer saw.

[Azremodehar]

This is so awesome; especially if it turns out there WAS an impact.

Learned anything else regarding that, since?

[Jtherva]

Sure its not just a shadow of the moon on the surface?

[wtfuonutbefor]

omg.... i think i saw a commit out side my window.... like a realy big light that hit som were in a town near by.... but i dont no if it realy was a comment..... what colour light do they give out

[MrWajax]

Great video! Looks like you had an excellent time during this trip.

[qtyqty4]

is a serious warning from "someone"....after "you" just kiss the moon......(impact size of earth???)

[DutchCannabis]

i think the universe is a fantastic living cell.

lol

the black holes trillions of miles in diameter in the center of each galaxy.

also in ours .

i think is obvious enough .

a perfect mechanism

yes the universe expands ,but it will not stay that way forever .lol

[FuckedUpName]

wow dude i think the WHOLE universe is a living cell, part of a living thing like a skin cell on a human...

[HaloZero147]

Were in a petri disk for all we know.

[propaghandi2]

i agree!

[MGOWNER1]

the time continiuam is weird too hmm what if they could send a camera into a wormhole or a black whole infinity the end or paradise? its weird

[angelpbj]

the moon in transit, is it Io?

[angelpbj]

these events (comet hits Jupiter) used to be once-in-a-thousand-years events, back in the old times of SL-9 impact. Now they happen every 3 months.

.... and everything is just fine??

[angelpbj]

can we technically consider an impact on a satellite as "effectively" occurring on the large planet? Because it looks like we're in "comet/asteroid hits Jupiter" season.

What do you think?

[angelpbj]

Great vid, you're a fucking lucky bastard!!!:-)

[MiguelDante]

Someone posted a photo of Jupiter and its moons on another site, there was also a strange anomaly on the photo. I thought it looked like a comet, but could it be a dust/vapor plume from this impact on the Io?

[angelpbj]

YEP!!!

[bimblinghill]

I was very drunk last night. This morning, one of my friends said I was 'gibbering' about some video. Turns out, it was this one.. I'd caught sight of Jupiter through the window & it sent me off on one.

It's OK, my friends already know I'm a geek.

[Dafariii]

how clear is the horse head through the telescope by just looking through it?

[Meejoe27]

Incredible.

[Digimaul]

nearly invisable without collecting light for a while

[Dafariii]

thanks for info

[ChickenBot]

Very good and informative video.

I wish I knew how to spot planets with a telescope...

...well I wish I had a telescope.

[mistara31415]

That moon should have it named changed to: "thunderf00t owns me"

[jussts]

Thunderf00t's crater... has a ring to it.

[aaugoaa]

cool!! loved this video.

[Mittop]

Great vid. It would be so awesome if it turns out you observed such an impact event.

[mahcuz]

Really amazing video :D!

[aznboy123]

How did you attach your HD camcorder onto the telescope? That's something I'd like to try. I think I might have the same camcorder as you.

[Icelyon]

Looks like a shadow of the passing object :)

[Jimb0can]

That is interesting. I might have been an effect. Who knows! Looks interesting though.

[theshadowify]

I know TF's true identity.

[TheGreatPyro]

He looks like my father (10 years ago), or a long lost brother. O_O

[TheGreatPyro]

I get it right?

[theshadowify]

You are close yet very cold

[0okamino]

Well, I don't know if we'll find out his actual true identity, but maybe the 'true' one he uses while visiting us on Earth.

Shhhhh.

[theshadowify]

His ture identity is hard to narrow down. He is from the future and yet he is from the past and lives in the present. He does this simultaneously while he lives in the inner dimmension as well as the outer dimmension. All from a town in Ithaca but he doesn't live there in the physical sense.

[BluncheonMeat]

The clarity of your telescope footage (post processing) is absolutely amazing. I always though you can't see extra-terrestrial bodies like nebulas and other galaxies using ground based telescopes like yours.

[ls1z28chris]

Thanks for showing some shot of your equipment. I know a few of us asked for it on you last Jupiter video. Now I can start researching whether or not this is an investment I'm fiscally capable of making.

[0okamino]

Apparently, Thunderf00t is back home now. He survived! I think dprjones probably just lost a lot of bets because of that. ;)

If his Jupiter footage turns out to really be significant, that'll be interesting. We might find out his true identity from the news.

[theshadowify]

Actually there was another transit. Almalthea was transiting at the exact same time. It was in the shadow of Io.

[theshadowify]

I am siding with its an optical illusion.

[DanCurry16]

I'm really not seeing what everyone else is seeing here, I can't even comprehend what happens, haha.

[andytom]

Impressive..

[LibertyIsNotGiven]

That's a fantastic effort on the Horsehead.

[yogurtking]

If this was a Christian watching the sky (but why would they waste their time?) it would *definitely* be a comet strike to show God's coming wrath... or that he missed us.

[yogurtking]

have you had anyone analyze it yet? this is kind of exciting. :-)

[theshadowify]

Its not likely that he has had anyone look at it yet. He is out on his vacation, and I dont think he is back yet.

[blauwen]

looks like a shadow to me but who knows maybe theyll name the disaster after you tf ;D

[EyesOpen11]

I wouldn't bet on it being an impact either. If it's not an optical effect then io must have a few supervolcanoes down there. It's too bad we don't have any probes in the system, it might be a while before we get another close look at io.

[Beasile]

you never know TF...the odds of winning a lottery are next to zero, but someone eventually wins the jackpot. After millions(?) of people watching Jupiter for years...maybe you 'won the lottery'.

[PrairiePie23]

Awesome! Well done.

[thegyger]

Wow

[Shavarnarak]

Looks to me more like Io's shadow on Jupiter, but if it's an impact that's a really lucky shot of it.

[smuppa]

Amazing footage :) Makes me want to get a telescope and do that myself

[musicgeniusno1]

Fascinating footage TF. Looked like an impact to me... You should send this off for analysis, you may have captured something really amazing.

Your trip has certainly been eventful, enjoy the rest of it. :)

[magua73]

Well Io is amazingly active moon, maybe it was a rather big eruption, and that would also be a pretty cool thing to witness.

Anyways I hope we hear more from you about this.

[AnAverageSkeptic]

The Crab Nebula is amazing. It would be great if you could get some close ups of it.

[rationalargument]

Well you should still send your raw data to professional astronomers! Who knows - your images could be on the newscientist top stories the next day :)

[UserNameForYeeTube]

That is some pretty incredible footage, not only of Jupiter but of the Nebulae and Galaxies. :D

Nice work.

[killerbandit]

Very cool.

[kaupaxup]

You're going to let us know if/when you find out more info on that impact or optical effect or w/e it was I trust? Damn interesting stuff.

[OntologicalQuandary]

How long has tf00t been on the road!?!

[0okamino]

Since about July 8th or 9th. So it's at two months this week.

And here we have another great video from thunderf00t. :)

[Lpoolboy]

Incredible!!!!!!!!!

[roidroid]

it is quite interesting and inspiring that such software enables the average Joe to make cool stuff.

[flowthrupranayama]

more ratings than views here.. Numbers fixed?

[espn1337]

When will people learn... The rating updates instantly while the views don't.

[zjbell01]

Stupid youtube takes forever to update views.

[mikemikemofo]

you haven't been here long, have you?

[Geodge]

Great stuff. Keep us posted please! Any good explanations will be of interest no matter which way it goes.

[hgryphon]

Wouldn't that be a fantastic prize to take from your astronomy trip? They're fine shots anyways. Thanks for sharing them with us!

[TehNarrator]

You say this video may be valuable? okay, i just downloaded it. If anyone wants to buy it, just contact me.

[ccaptorchen]

can't you call up some some observatory to see if they saw the impact in question?

[jpsousa4]

use CCDstack instead. (fanboi remark) =P

[Bozeman42]

I just saw Jupiter through a telescope for the first time this past week. Awesome experience, now I just need the money for a scope of my own....

Great video!

[554466551]

Great stuff, Tf00t. Hope you've captured something exciting.

Any chance you'll get to record another transit with your equipment any time soon to see if the anomaly recurs?

[kibilz]

Hey TF I was wondering if you have managed to get that bad boy on ISS. Will the motor slew fast enough to keep up?

[shlunko]

Well done TF, worth more than 5 stars in my opinion!

[anubisx00]

Awesome work!

[Alaron251]

Awe. Some.

[inmedx]

Great videos! 5* + fav!

[cohnkrad]

This is some great FOOTage! Thanks so much for the uploads and all the time and effort you spend to bring this to all of us.

[Plutonwolf]

How fantastic! The beauty of the sky combined with the beauty of the Tetons. Remember this always, you were blessed! I can't wait to return to that area and stay till I become a part of the local geology ;-)

[masticina]

Mmm interesting of course to get these results checked they have to be cross referenced.

Yes it takes many attempts to get things just right. I tried photographing the moon :( I was left with a hazy 1megapixel sized crop *sigh*

[aretz28]

Impact or not it was still an interesting anomaly.

[jebus6kryst]

Wow, that would be really amazing if do have something there. Either way, those are some nice videos of heavenly bodies.

[GWR3440]

Wow!

[GuppyPal]

Exactly what I was going to say.

[comface]

I really don't see any evidence of an impact.... although, saying that... I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be looking for.

Is it the 'shadow' that is showing the 'eruptions'?

[jo05dk]

If this is what it looks like, it's amazing! Sure you'll let us know if anything interesting comes up:-)

[coasterpro]

It's conceivable that we're simply seeing Io eclipse its own shadow. My bet would be that the processing software uses a filter that increases what we call the acutance (or edge contrast) of the image. Photoshop users know this as "Unsharp Mask". Both the moon and its shadow will appear bigger and bolder as a result, but artificially so. Add to that the interpolation between frames and we might get an effect exactly like what we're seeing.

[alexanderscottduff]

I agree. I thought i was looking at and impact untill i realised it was Ios shadow i was thinking was Io, then when I looked harder i saw you can just make out Io moving infront of the shadow and when it reaches the 'impact point' as i were you can see how the shadow is eclipsed and can be mistaken for an impact.

[AnonEyeMouse]

I'm no expert on these things but just looking at the video the first time, this was my impression.

[verodefacto]

amazing stuff!

[IdoloR]

sooo getting one of those things :D

[busterbox]

Incredible stuff.  Thanks for the considerable effort.

[rollsthepaul]

As crazy as this sounds, there was no impact on Jupiter. The mark was made by those imprisoned on this planet. Jupiter was turned into a prison planet recently and the inmates won't be getting out. Also check out Saturn which is the second recent prison planet in our solar system. The beings are all in the astral but unable to leaves the two planets. Stay tuned, it gets much weirder.

[cyberdemon107]

LUL I TROLL U XD

[TheOats]

Have you sent this to NASA or ESA? Would be cool to hear what they think.

[dannukesem]

I would bet that it is a real meteor strike, and I say that because the velocities match up to what that would be. It may not be as uncommon as you think, as I am sure Jupiter draws in alot of material.

[AnonEyeMouse]

Yes Jupiter draws in a lot of material - but considering the size of Io and it's orbital path (things hitting Jupiter tend to head straight for Jupiter due to it's huge gravity - unless they have significantly great velocity) so catching a moon on the inside edge of Jupiter (The side facing us) being struck by such a large object (if indeed that is what this is) is pretty damn rare footage.

[OhThatAlan]

Could this be an artifact of the stacking software?

Any independent corroboration of an actual collision yet?

[tamiasthechipmunk]

That would indeed be something if the impact on Io were real and not an optical effect.

[gr33bo]

At 1:46/1:47 it looks like maybe something bounced off Jupiter's atmosphere rather than hitting Io...

(layman's interpretation)

[sugmegpls]

i have no idea what im watching.

[1RadicalOne]

How do you afford all of this, Thunderf00t?

[LinuxUser4Life]

I would also like to know this.

[AnonEyeMouse]

1) Being Smart.

2) Being Educated. (not the same thing)

3) Being lucky enough to find people willing to pay you lots of money for being smart and educated.

[0okamino]

This probably counts in the Being Smart category, but I think it's also worth noting that thunderf00t seems quite frugal in many aspects. That goes a long way in being able to afford such a trip.

[themanwhoknew]

Even if it's just an optical problem, that's still some very amazing footage.

[Antichryst666]

Amazing footage.  Thank you

[ctownsoul]

i'm not exactly sure what you're seeing. Isn't that "double transit" Io and its shadow cast onto Jupiter?

[alphadog7473]

Regardless of what it was "exactly" is open to speculation , but the footage itself is fantastic, Thanks Thunderf00t for your efforts , they are amazing.....as is most of your vids, a pleasure to watch.....all the best ! and do be careful out there, no more cliff standing while looking through the view finder on your recorder , it makes us nervous . With that , happy viewing and clear skys. Thank you

[FreindlyRanger]

The shadow of Io on Jupiter looks like the Bat Symbol as it transits.

Or is that just me.

Great vid again.

[frankjohnson123]

I think you may have found something here, it remains incredibly consistent in its location when you slightly changed the camera angle.

[nasnema]

This is very impressive. Whatever university he's at I'm sending my kids to.

[padraigkilkenny13]

Wow!

[DeltaNC]

Foots Comet!

As some have said, I'm really not sure what I'm lookin at. I see a moon in transit, and what I assume is the shadow.

[airihi]

I think you might be right - the shadows of the moons fall that way at the moment, and you'd think it'd be pretty rare for something to hit the moon square-on and bounce out in the very same direction it orbits.

I'd be checking the time Io was supposed to leave transit, see if it matches the light shape or the dark shape.

I need a telescope - these videos are just so inspiring!

[DeltaNC]

Heh! I have been pricing them up too the last few weeks. Going to get my self a cheap 150mm reflector.

[polyatheist]

It's crazy that now everybody can document what decades ago even NASA had problems doing.

[5pecular]

I think that was never and impact or an optical effect just some other space object flying through the sky

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

epic

[airihi]

That is amazing stuff! Looks fantastic!

An interesting thing about the blob is that it stays in plane with the orbit, despite the earths rotation: wouldn't you expect it to stay in reference to the frame if it were an optical effect?

[razoras]

I guess I'm just not seeing what Thunderf00t is seeing. I see a single object with a dark shadow going across the disk.

[ChrisJMoor]

I think its very unlikely this was an impact event, but on the other hand, Comet Thunderf00t 1 has a certain ring to it.

[KadowX]

Oh, that's great!

[deconverts]

That was very, very interesting. Thank you for being so inspiring during the international year of astronomy!

[Fr0zenLegend]

Would be awesome if it really was an inpact, but I kinda doubt it, I think that its just a optical effect of the telescope.

[manan0nim0us4]

cool as hell. will be cool to hear what others say if you have the data reviewed.

[bimblinghill]

Nothing wrong with a bit of excited optimism once in a while...

If film was captured of a comet strike on Io, that would be awesome.

If it was captured by Thunderf00t, working from the back of his car, that would be awesome to the power of I don't know what!

Also, was that Orion rising over Devil's Tower? Cool.

[sdpgposd]

incredibly interesting.

[dannukesem]

That's quite a find.

[handplanty]

Very, very impressive. Or, compared to my personal attempts at trying to see even the moon through my toy telescope, haha. Especially when taking into account that this is an "amateur" video. Would you see structures on the moon like in the conspiracy theories? :P

[legalizemarijuananos]

this means thunderf00t is going to have a comet named after him.

[DooMDrat]

If it did happen they sure as hell better name it after him!

[IntellectualRubbish]

Aliens ? :)

[katey1dog]

It does look like the object accelerates from Io.

[DooMDrat]

It's a piece of Hellion 1957! :P

[katey1dog]

On it's way to the Sun!

[DooMDrat]

We're doomed, DOOOMMMEEDDDD I TELL YA!!!

[katey1dog]

Easy there C3PO, We'll get Michael Bay on the job and he'll make mincemeat of that thing.

Oh, wait, he sucks. But Chuck Norris will have it taken out with one swift roundhouse!

[Jallenbah]

I don't know very much about astronomy, but these astronomy videos are really cool, it's awesome seeing the rotation of jupiter.

[rozeboosje]

Have you been able to cross reference your imagery with imagery taken by somebody else at the same time?

[philhellenes]

That shadow DID look elongated, and none of the other features showed similar distortion...

Who knows (yet). :)

[SsuperKyle]

great video!

[coasterpro]

The clarity of the processing is astonishing enough, even without the anomalous event on Io. The sophistication that amateur astronomy has progressed to in the past decade just blows my mind.

[AnimaRaptor]

A major pity is that I can't even see what it is you are talking about, even full screening doesn't help and HD doesn't work... so I'll just commend you on the pretty pictures, so to speak. :p

[Inmylifealive]

so we are talking about the thing of 4:14 we got a little dot, then further on it changes in two dots and one of them disappears... right? :P

[Inmylifealive]

XD lol i will wait for HQ then, maybe that clears things up. hahah

[davidproper]

Amazing video. love these.

[DontHurtTheIntersect]

I am so envious of you right now, tfoot.

[Depresijus]

oh dear, i hope normal quality will come soon...

[vbvbig]

4th

[cyberdemon107]

First fail? You sure are.