Mon Jul 18 22:45:23 1994


Optical imaging of impact sites G,H,E


Optical narrow-band CCD imaging (407nm-907nm) from the 1-m Jacobus Kapteyn telescope on La Palma shows the impact site of fragment G remaining prominent between the start of observations at 20:27 UT until it passed over the Western Limb at approximately 22:17 UT.

Impact site H was well resolved on the Eastern terminator at 20:27 UT, and remained in view until Jupiter set. It appears to have a similar morphology to impact site A as first imaged by HST, comprising at blue wavelengths of a dark center with a crescent to the South-West, but is only approximately half as large as impact site G.

A 3rd impact site, presumable E, is visible on the Morning terminator at 22:08 UT and images thereafter.


Alan Fitzsimmons, Queen's university of Belfast

Peter Andrews, Royal Greenwich Observatory

Phill Rudd, Isaac Newton Group, La Palma

Iwan Williams, Queen Mary & Westfield College




Last Modifikation: 94/07/21 17:35 MET
Curator: C. Kronberg (smil@agleia.de)