Texas A&M Observatory Pre-Impact Images of Jupiter

Texas A&M Observatory Images of Jupiter

The images of Jupiter below are Kodak Photo CD images from 100 speed Royal Gold Kodak 35mm film. These photos are 5 seconds exposures using eyepiece projection on a 14" Schmidt-Cassegrain (f/11) telescope with a 4mm eyepiece. Some of these images show the dark impact sites of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The images are oriented as follows:

                               North
                     Following   +   Preceding
                               South


PHOTOS BY:
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All times are in Universal time.

6-04-94 03:48 - White Oval in The South Tropical Zone

6-04-94 06:20 - Great Red Spot

6-05-94 05:55 - White Ovals BC and DE in the STB and Io

6-06-94 03:20 - Ganymede with Shadow and Io

6-07-94 02:53 - Io's Shadow (Io on disk of Jupiter)

6-07-94 04:25 - Io with Shadow

6-13-94 02:27 - White Ovals BC and DE in the STB

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