Jupiter impact flash Aug 20 2010 by Masayuki Tachikawa, Japan

Optical flash on Jupiter captured at 18h22m12s (+/- 1 minute) on August 20 (UT). The flash is *very* faint, near the edge of the red belt (Jupiter's North Equatorial Belt; the video has south up). You may need to view it several times to notice it. The video was taken by an amateur astronomer, Mr. Masayuki Tachikawa in Kumamoto city, using a Philips Toucam Pro2 attached to the telescope, Takahashi TAO-150 f1100mm with teleview power mate X5. Further information: http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002631/ and http://alpo-j.asahikawa-med.ac.jp/kk10/j100820r.htm and http://chiron.mtk.nao.ac.jp/watanabe/optical-flash-on-jupiter

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• jupiter
• impact
• astronomy

[neroxero]

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[planetsocblog]

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[flynnbrown2001]

I heard of the impact, over at the BAUT Forum. Came to visit here and have a look-see!!! Wow! Mind-blowing stuff.

Thanks for sharing.

[planetsocblog]

@flynnbrown2001 You're welcome!

[planetsocblog]

@shreder199 And proud of it!

[vectormayn001]

I could beat up jupiter

[Phospholipidicious]

lol im a nerd, and this is toooooo nerdy lol love it though! lol nice flash baby,,, ohhh yahhhh! ;)

[sqwuade]

@moarfailplz ROFLMAO! Nice! Yeah, I think I saw shreder199 on the side of a road once digging at ditch as I was driving by in my Benz!

[CmdrGendoIkari]

@ericwdhs - GRS has been steadily shrinking over the years. It's about 2 Earths across now.

Anyways, a very interesting catch of an impact flash. I've never been that lucky with my Jupiter captures.

[TruthMediaTV]

i see no rings

[ericwdhs]

Nice capture. That insignificant flash is probably about the size of Asia. (You can fit 3 Earths in the Great Red Spot near the top.) That is a whole lot of energy being released.

Also, I see a lot of comments on videos like this saying it's not an impact since Jupiter's all gas. That's not true. It most likely has a rocky core and there's definitely liquid down there for sure. The deep atmosphere's much denser than anything we'd call gaseous here on Earth. Stuff takes weeks to fall through.

[scurran007]

Way to go Masayuki! What did you capture this with, Webcam or where you using a low light camera?

[happykapads]

NERDS NERDS NERDS

[giofrasa]

Very good capture !!