Wed Jul 20 00:11:51 1994


Fireball L as seen in Brazil


At the 61cm telescope of the University of Sao Paulo:


We have been able to image what turned out to be an impressive plume from fragment L. The filter was 990nm/18nm with a CCD. The fireball was first detected at around 22:20UT. The feature in that filter was still visible well after the visual sight had faded. The resulting spot seen against Jupiter's disk was an impressive one, spanning more than 2 arc sec in angular size.

With the spot farther from the limb, we then switched to imaging polarimetry at the V and R bands during the remaining hours.


Observing team: Antonio Mario Magalhaes 
                Vera Ellinger Margoniner
                Claudia Rodrigues.



Last Modifikation: 94/07/20 14:00 MET
Curator: C. Kronberg (smil@agleia.de)