Calar Alto Image of Fragment Q Impacts

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Spectacular first view of Fragment Q impats on Jupiter. Infrared image in the 2.3 micron methane band taken using MAGIC on the 3.5m telescope, Calar Alto Observatory, Spain, July 20, 1994.

 
Observers at Calar Alto:
 
Tom Herbst, Kurt Birkle, Ulrich Thiele 
(Max-Plack-Institut fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany) 
 
Doug Hamilton 
(Max-Plack-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)
 
Hermann Boenhardt, Alex Fiedler, Karl-Heinz Mantel 
(Universitaets Sternwarte Muenchen, Germany) 
 
Jose Luis Ortiz 
(Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain) 
 
Giovanni Calamai, Andrea Richichi 
(Osservatorio di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy) 
 
 
Contact: Mark McCaughrean, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie 
         Koenigstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany 
         Phone: (49) 6221 528 303 
         FAX:   (49) 6221 528 246 
         e-mail mjm@mpia-hd.mpg.de (Internet)