Comet Impact on moon of Jupiter?

Tuesday 25th
Up and moving around by 9ish, after only maybe a few hours sleep. Back into town to pick up a fastfood breakfast, before heading on south towards Idaho Falls. Stopped enroute for another hour or twos sleep. At Idaho Falls I headed to the starbux for wifi and power to process the Jupiter footage. MUCH better than anything Ive done previously, and the timelapse of me getting the footage of Jupiter really added to it. Quite unintentionally I had got simultaneously the rotation of the Earth in the same time frame as the rotation of Jupiter! I also had the movement of three of the moons! That had a significant effect at raising the fatigued spirit.
The sky forcast looked good, so I picked up some food and headed back to the my Tetons Pass'. Set up the scope past dark and turned it to Jupiter. I could see a moon on the limb of Jupiter (about to transit) and the great red spot about to roll over the face of the disk. That settled it, I had to look at it! Got ready for another timelapse, doing 15s capture every 3minutes. Kept going till the moon was well clear of the limb of the other side of Jupiter. Orion was then rising so I spent 20 minutes on the horsehead nebula.




Wednesday 26th slept till noon, then shook off the drowsyness and headed down to Jackson. Enroute my AC convertor that gives me 120v from the 12v of the car burnt out, and all of a sudden, within a day, I had gone from having 3 of these devices to only one (a robust one, but one that could only handle 80W (almost nothing). . Processed deep sky images, and processed and uploaded tyrell. Night doing outreach

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[Digimaul]

nearly invisable without collecting light for a while

[LibertyIsNotGiven]

That's a fantastic effort on the Horsehead.

[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?

[propaghandi2]

i agree!

[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

[HaloZero147]

Were in a petri disk for all we know.

[MrWajax]

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

[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