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Title: Jupiter Just Got Smacked by a Space Rock and an Amateur Astronomer Caught
it On Camera
Author: martyb
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:33:00 -0400
Link: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/09/20/2023218&from=rss

LabRat[1] writes:

From Jupiter just got smacked by a space rock and an amateur astronomer caught it on camera[2]:

Brazilian observer José Luis Pereira[3] captured a bright flash on the solar system's largest planet[4] Monday night [...], memorializing the fiery death
of a space rock high in the Jovian atmosphere[5].

"I am an assiduous planetary observer," Pereira told Space.com in a written statement Tuesday (Sept. 14). "When the planets Jupiter, Saturn and Mars are
in opposition, I try to make images in every possible night of clear skies. Especially [of] the planet Jupiter, my favorite."

[...] His observing setup consists of the following, he added: a Newtonian Telescope 275mm f/5,3 with a QHY5III462C camera, plus a Televue Powermate 5x (f/26,5) eyepiece and an IRUV cut filter.


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Links:
[1]: http://soylentnews.org/~LabRat/ (link)
[2]: https://www.space.com/jupiter-impact-flash-photo-video (link)
[3]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/24115032@N06/ (link)
[4]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVSU_TJlSjY (link)
[5]: https://www.space.com/stunning-jupiter-photos-hubble-telescope-video (link)
[6]: http://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=51398 (link)
[7]: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/09/20/2023218&from=rss (link)



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