Thu Jul 21 22:30:34 1994


Further visual observations, July 22.0-22.1 UT


Further to our earlier message about the apparent visual sighting of impact "U" (immediately following the K impact site) we have followed the advance of site L across the planet's disk. The L shield appears darker and more defined than the K shield; the L spot appeared more intense than the K spot. There is a pronounced dark circular spot following and to the north of an extensive diffuse shield, the immediately-preceeding part of which appears quite a bit darker than the more southern section of the shield. The large G impact was also very noticeable on the morning limb at about 1h50m UT on July 22.

    -- S. J. O'Meara and D. W. E. Green at the 23-cm Clark refractor,
               Harvard College Observatory  (visual observations, no filter)