Jupiter Impact Caught

[ParaglidingManiac]

You get better image quality by recording through prime focus. I guess you are using magnification of about 200-300x, right? You'll get about 250 when filming through prime focus. Try it!

[sarajanegarr]

Also Jupiter is very important to earth Jupiter gets hit constantly ,no to mention the pull it has towards our planet! imagine life without it.. we'd be extinct and would probably never had existed in the first place

[sarajanegarr]

the earths been tested before , who's to say it wont be tested again..? The massive comet crater in America , i think Moscow was believed to be the extinction impact b4..

think before you answer my question....

because everything has a extinction date on it, just because we are human doesn't mean we haven't !

[MrWajax]

Great video! Whenever the skies are clear I always make time for astronomy.

[denniswhitney]

What software are you using to do your image capturing?

[Rodrigo9269]

buen video

[VideosByRaymonD]

COOL!

[Sealy1986]

lol Jupiter so big you dont need a telescope =P kinding.

[AdiooSk8]

Darn "Plantet X/Nibiru" getting stopped by Jupiter *lol*

Just jokin, great footage and a pretty nice telescope!

[Broan13]

If you are looking for cheap program that is good for stacking images, you can get ImageJ and install some astronomy packages that do the job nicely.

I find it a pretty simple program to use, but perhaps registax is just as good. I used to use DeepSkyStacker, but I have moved on to using ImageJ after taking a class that used it.

SBig also has a program called CCDOps that does the trick also.

[adafuns]

how much would one of those telesopes amount to?

[shadowcnidarian]

Yes, some believe the Earth was hit once and wiped out all life except for some bacteria under the ocean floor, then it was back to the drawing board for life (if true).

[kellirene65]

Towards London.

[botchok5]

Holy shit, was the meteor really about the same size of the earth?...

[ShadowOftheHated]

i heard that to lol damn i also heard there was one headin for earth

[nsleon22]

No, but the hole in the gaseous surface of Jupiter that it created was.

[NomadSoul76]

I think he means the dark spot in the clouds is Earth sized.

[AlliedRecords]

What a sick setup!

[Crowbot28]

Jupiter: Earth's comet and asteroid vacuum cleaner! Thanks big guy!

[El135o]

I just posted the same comment elsewhere!

[Joseph565112]

Um, it put us in a literal shooting gallery. The gravitational anomaly between the Sun and Jupiter kept billions of tons of debris from coalescing into another solidified planetary body, i.e. the asteroid belt. To think, some actually think that was "designed" to put us in peril...lmao.

[Crowbot28]

Would we call it an anomaly? I'd say (not as a scientist, but I am a fan) that it is just the pull between both objects (sun and Jupiter that keeps all of the asteroids from coalescing. Also I remember hearing that Jupiter's gravitational girth helps to suck up the larger objects thus keeping them from heading into our neighborhood.

It is all a beautiful thing worthy of reverence, but to say it was designed is pretty laughable.

I gotta hit the observatory more!

[Joseph565112]

Depending on Jupiters position around the Sun in comparison to ours, it can be a good thing or bad. The gravity anomaly can sling shot these debris towards the Sun (and us) or out into the Kuiper Belt, or at least out that direction. Jupiter's mini solar system is beautiful and intriguing. However, the danger the planet puts us in should not be discounted or overlooked.

[Crowbot28]

Interesting! I never knew the full picture. Thanks for the explanation. Any suggestions on further reading material on Jupiter's gravitational field and other curios of our solar system?

[Joseph565112]

Further reading? This is just a well known fact about the planets gravity, the asteroid belt and the subsequent debris flung our way from time to time. It does protect us, largely from incoming Kuiper Belt objects sure, then cancels that out with the potential for sending a life ender our way...one made of iron and not rock and ice... I don't have any particular books, but good reading for Jupiter would have to do with its magnetosphere and its tidal affects on its moons.

[Crowbot28]

I knew about the effect it had on drawing asteroids and comets, but was unaware to the severity of what it could send our way. I assumed the stuff that has hit us in the past managed to get passed Jupiter's gravity well (perhaps due to Jupiter being on the other side of the sun with relation to the asteroid/comet at the time). It makes sense that Jupiter could act as a slingshot though (I remember reading that the slingshot method was used for the Voyageurs and Pioneer probes to propel them out.

[RotorDemon]

Looks like a Nexstar telescope. I have a puny 114GT and I really enjoy it. Great pics!

[Hardcoresbwf]

djay91, you should take a look at yourself. Dipshit.

[wolflogic32]

thats insant Tf00t =^_^= thanks for shareing this with us 5* fav and sub ^^

No creationist could apperciate this for what it is fully worth

[pyro1056]

No, I don't apperciate anything. I do however, appreciate the fact that this could tell us quite a bit about what would happen to us if a comet hit the moon or Earth.

Don't assume anybody who doesn't believe the same things you do is an idiot. I don't and you shouldn't think you're better than anyone because you are ignorant of other people's beliefs. It makes you seem like a close minded fool.

[wolflogic32]

So im asuming your a creationist?

Hehe i neaver said you where closed minded silly all i said is that you could proably neaver aperciate all that goes into this, all the technology, all the science, and how far we have come in just the last 50 years! and you already proved my point by saying

"No, i don't apperciate anything."

=^_^=

[pyro1056]

First off, the "No, I don't apperciate anything." comment was to point out that you misspelled the word "appreciate" which you happened to do in your reply, so I guess it wasn't a typo after all. If it still is a typo, you have terrible luck hitting the keys. And to say that I am unable to appreciate any technological and scientific advancements in the last fifty years prove my point. You are still too closed minded to accept the fact that someone with other beliefs can recognize significance.

[TheStig000]

Nice Eee PC, I've got one too.

[Hardcoresbwf]

djay91, shut the fuck up you uneducated cunt.

[Gameboygenius]

Which software are you using on the laptop?

[RJL738]

That is amazing, a planet that is almost 1,400 times the volume of the Earth yet one of the bruises on it are almost the size of the Earth alone. Jupiter is one huge planet.

[tinnato]

thunderf00t why dont u speak off this on ur own channel?

[Jas0nphilly]

wow thats awesome! Im buying my first telescope soon, hopefully it will be between 6-8 inches. Jupiter was beautiful last night outshining all the other objects in our sky. we saw the Galilean moons. I can't wait to see Orion this winter.

[WiIfredOwen]

Nice work!  5 stars.

[LepraLord1]

LOL did i actually hear him say "there we have penis" in the beginning :D

[WiIfredOwen]

"there we have Venus"

[Inmylifealive]

there it is the dark spot!

HAHAHa couldnt see a thing :P (2nd picture i could see it)

I find it interesting to read what you said in your discription... If i where you i would tell that in a video... of the holocast...

[UserNameForYeeTube]

Gustav Holst's Planets. <3

[majorvoltage]

Niiiice! That scar definitely looks a lot like the shoemaker levy 9 impact bruises.

[metalorg]

There's something very romantic about being an eccentric guy driving around the U.S. all alone having spent all your money on expensive equiptment to make videos of stars and canyons to share on the internet.

[AzureFlameElk]

Yeah I'd fuck him too

[Paomnnehal]

Yup, it turns me on.

[TheMachineBiological]

Awesome!

[daeamarth]

Damn I have a cpc-800 xlt and it wont hold that accuracy for more than a few hours even with PEC on an alt/az mount. Guess Celestron put a lot more effort into the big aperture scopes. How did you get that webcam over the eyepiece to be stable enough with a 2 axis movement?!

[pookiehohn]

I like Holst's Jupiter music.

[mrko2008]

Didn't we send a bunch of radioactive waste there??

[ClanRooster]

Imagine the chances ! Amazing,

beauty in-deed, and motion...

[phenixwryter]

Beautiful telescope. Very nice capture. Sure am glad Jupiter is pulling in those walloping big rocks.

[Textra1]

Jupiter is my favourite planet by far for that reason. It's our giant protector sentinel out there, guarding us while we sleep. Earth would certainly be a different planet without Jupiter.

[oggleman]

As an earthling I might be a bit biased in this opinion but Earth is my favorite planet by far because we live on it :P

[DeemotheAtheist]

BIAS!!! :P

[Digimaul]

pfft, earth... one moon? Not impressed... think you're all badass because you've got liquid water.... ooooooo, mars had that too and look how he turned out :P

[AnimaRaptor]

lol If I ignore that all too pertinent fact, I vote Venus. :)

[dannukesem]

At least the dark spots are not here :)

[554466551]

Nice! Caught the impact. Hope you sort the scope's slipping prob without too much fuss.

[thetramp123]

nice vid

[grenangle]

WTF is all this Ray shit doing on here. Ladies and Gentlemen some boundaries please.

[grenangle]

Fantastic. Ive got sky in Sydney tonight and I'm Itching for a see.

[Joseph565112]

One question you never posed Ray was one of those that would have disabled him on the spot.....How did Jupiter get here? "genesis" only "accounts" for earth, the stars (collectively) and then some (not all but some) of the important things here on the earth. What about ALL the other planets in our solar system? What about all the exosolar planets, yep, whole other solar systems...funny "god" would forget to mention all that, LMFAO

[EebstertheGreat]

Joseph, I would think that the New World might be worth mentioning, too, but I guess it just slipped his mind.

[Joseph565112]

Yeah, but the lying "judeo-christians" will just say, "Oh, well he collectively mentions it by speaking of the earth." However correct or incorrect that it, the planets and their moons etc etc totally and completely negate their lies.

[djay91]

lol the fuck are you talking about right now?

[Joseph565112]

...I was replying to EebstertheGreat.

[djay91]

lol you're crazy son.

[Joseph565112]

Well, not half has crazy as "moses"

[djay91]

is that your sister?

[Joseph565112]

Is "moses" my sister? Lol, nah, I am not even sure if "moses" existed. However, if he did, that guy liked the peyote a little too much.

[djay91]

is peyote your sisters tampon brand? or noo?

[Joseph565112]

Nah, it's the shit she was smoking when she thought "god" was talkin to her.

[Joseph565112]

Yeah, in the form of a plant. It makes her see and hear things that aren't really there. Cool huh?

[Joseph565112]

Yeah, the "bible" is pretty gay, I should really stop critiquing it. "have you ever felt a tit son?" Well, yes I have (psss, just don't tell Jesus....I'm not married yet)

[djay91]

haha are you talking about something right now?

[Joseph565112]

Um, not. Not until this very second, I guess. So, do you believe the creed of ignorance and outright lies known as the "bible" djay91?

[djay91]

i believe your moms tits wrote the bible, am i correct?

[Joseph565112]

Hmm, djay91, just admit it, you subscribe to a creed of ignorance and outright lies. Hell, you might even be a member of the flat earth society. Well, I got to tell ya, these planets that Thunderf00t here is looking at, well, they are kind of hard on your theory.

[djay91]

lol dog, are you going crazy?

[Joseph565112]

Yeah, not a dog though, Homo Sapien. So, why do you seem to believe in bullshit like zombies, fairies, magic etc? Am I just mistaken or do you djay91?

[djay91]

i believen:

marijuana

money

work

chilling

and going to school.

you believen youtube and like 80 other space shit pages you probably subscribed to lol.

[Joseph565112]

So you don't believe in the bullshit known as the "bible"....good, glad to hear it. "i believen:" Hmm, so where you go to school now, lol?

[djay91]

dog, i wrote the bible.

i happen to be jesus.

canadian "EHH", just don't worry about it.

[Joseph565112]

Dog, so you're Jesus huh? Well Jesus, why do you try so hard to bullshit everyone into thinking magic trumphs actual scientific and natural events? Why do you want us to think that some space daddy pulled us all out of a hat or his arse instead of the truth, that we are chemistry and biology in action?

[djay91]

jeeze man, the shit you talk about.

you have to be either smoking meth, or working in a meth lab lol.

[Joseph565112]

Nah, I don't make it or work around it being produced, I just sell it. Science is clearly a mystery to you, "christian" or atheist or agnostic, it doesn't matter. Does science and the enormity of space scare you or what "dog"?

[djay91]

no son, actually i'm kinda sorta really pretty fascinated in it, hence being here.

[Joseph565112]

Alright! This is good. So, you don't believe the "bible" bullshit and you like science and learning about the cosmos. Very good.

[djay91]

fuck the cosmos, i just wanna know what's behind the blue wall up there.

everything we soo though is in the past

and one day i wanna see the present stages of some of these objects we can see.

[Joseph565112]

Huh? What do you mean? You wanna see past the Nitrogen rich atmosphere? All you're going to see is stars and some of the planets. I want to see some of the exosolar planets orbiting whole other stars. Like hd 189733 b, with its 6,000 mph jet streams or hd 80606 b, that is consumed in a cloud of fire every 111 days; as it gets close to its parent star. That planet has the most accentric orbit of any known world. Ventures out to 76 million miles and swings in as close as 3 million.

[djay91]

other stars and other planets i can't see through our sky are exactly what i want to see.

[ivorbueb]

Oh the advantage of being Ray Comfort. If all your knowledge of the world comes from the bible, you have no need to spend big bucks on the neat stuff that Thunderf00t has.

[Chrisjr2007]

ohhhhhhhhh new setup;D

[Melexion]

... Did you ever consider making a public blog, so that you can have all the writings of your travels in one spot for easy access? I mean, you likely did consider it, but it would make it easier for people to read it all. It appears you have a Thunderf00t BlogSpot (if that is your account), but it's by invitation only. :(

[criskity]

Wild guess: the music is Holst's " Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity"?

[TheFifthApes]

Thunderfoot, you should take out the eyepiece and take off the lense of the camera.

This way you don't have light passing through 2 extra lenses which results in a blurrier and dimmer image. You can also stick the camera into a barlow if you need more magnification.

It looks like you're using a logitech webcam, which isn't bad, but the best I found for astrophotography is a Phillips SPC900NC which is amazing in low-light because of the CCD instead of CMOS chip.

Clear skies

[Cnidarious]

fun stuff

[lemonlimeGOD]

Lovin' the Gustav Holst :)

[blancopeter]

Thanks that was great. I hope you got my email about new hit on Jupiter. Awesome

[shlunko]

Good work as always!

I've been meaning to try and get a glimpse of the impact myself.

[tomiontomion]

thank you

[opiant]

You have the same netbook I have (eee pc 1000). :)

[buzzausa]

That was way cool.

:)

[phantomspellchecker]

ThunderF00t, Meade makes some very reasonably priced CCD cameras (and field derotators, as you don't appear to have an equatorial wedge)

[ToasTeR1094]

I'm sorry at the beginning it sounds like there we have penis, anyway great vid.

[GungnirStrike]

I've got the same netbook as you :]

[FraggedMind]

100% per awesome.

My offer to buy lunch for you still stands.

[legalizemarijuananos]

whew that thing just misssed us. stupid comets.

[Quionic7]

@legalizemarijuananos

yeah missed us by about 588 million km

[iamtheVitor]

Or so it may seem. By using the scale of how wrong creationist are on the age of the earth. That was actually just 23 km from hitting us.

And since that is up for debate. Why not the distance to Jupiter aswell?

[bamboo4tameshigiri]

Excellent. A+ work

[levelate]

simply fantastic, good work

[bdf2718]

Lucky you to have caught it.

<---- jealous

:)

[xbuttiex]

Great work TF. You were incredibly lucky to get that impact.

What sort of telescope is it (name, series)?

[Y0uEnj0yMyself]

I love looking at the starts through telescopes. I live in the suburbs of Chicago though, so even with a telescope, many stars become invisible. However, when I go to my family's lake house in the Minnesota wilderness, I can see tons and tons of stars, which is great.

[jewishcarpenter]

Nice work, I also enjoyed the inclusion of Holst in there.

[madman0000004]

Very cool

[wjfox2006]

Amazing. I'm very jealous... wish I had a telescope like that!

[Alphacranberries]

Haha, nice engineering on the telescope cam.

[brianblackberry]

I WANT that telescope! Wow!

[InModiasWeTrust]

Nice work, T-F00t!! I eagerly await the upload of the Comfort discussion. Several more members of the community have had false DMCA claims filed against them. I contacted DPRJones about them this morning and have already received a reply. I encourage you to watch my latest video (less than 3 mins. long) regarding a possible plan. Feel free to mirror and please comment.

Always,

-Modias

[teverde579]

Well that's way less spectacular than it sounds. But at least the thought of it is cool.

[h20polorules]

Awesome. Thanks for sharing that with us :-)

[dackjaniels555]

Fucking Genius! fapfapfap!

[newexperiment]

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[Jimb0can]

Cool!!

[BabmerChan]

Make sure you protect all that technology from thieves...

You could probobly fight them off cause you are so muscley.

[FUCKYOURGODINTHEASS]

I'm salivating. Seriously, if you sat down with Ray Comfort... I MUST see this!

[IdleGod]

When is the Ray Comfort video going to be up?

[th3d3wd3r]

well played tf... I love the ccd mount lol

[hackenbollox]

Excellent work, mate. Really looking forward to the Bananaman vid.

[TheAnonymouz]

Nice

[BespokeGroupUK]

sexy

[baudiirocz]

Space is sooo cool. Now when are you going to pwn Ray Comfort?

[KrazyTea8]

Cool

[rod31808]

i must get me a good telescope.

[Deathmaster17]

The things you do are awesome

[BrianJunglist]

who cares?!

[snaske1]

horse?

[SucculentJuniper]

A horse is a horse, of course of course.