From: Jim Chung <jim_chung@sunshine.net>
Date: August 3, 2009 3:16:21 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Impact site captured (really!)
Thanks Alan & Milton, now that the Toronto RASC centre has control of the David Dunlap Observatory, I'm trying to convince them to let me image Jupiter through the 74" reflector.
Jim
Quoting Alan Friedman <alan@greatarrow.com>:
Very nice capture!
I watched the shadow of Io move onto the disk last night through little holes in a cloudy sky. I packed it around 1 a.m... climbed into bed and could see Jupiter blazing on the meridian in a cloudless sky. It's been that kind of summer for me...
Alan
On Aug 3, 2009, at 9:24 AM, jimchung2338 wrote:
OK,
This time I really got it and only because I wasn't trying for it! I was really after the Io transit and thought that based on the GRS transit at about 9pm local time, by midnite when Jupiter gets decently high enough in the sky the impact site would have rotated out of view. But as you can see I just caught it on its way out. Another 15 minutes and it would be hard to see at all.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Astro_IIDC/files/Planetary/JupiterAug3wImpact.jpg
Jim