Amateur astronomers spot new impact on Jupiter
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#3Would there be any interesting science to be had if we sent something to orbit Jupiter that could wait for, detect, and get us closer readings/views of such impacts?
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#4This is totally going to be my old man hobby.
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#5This is totally going to be my old man hobby.
It's sad it has to be this way. I have a telescope with a smaller telescope for tracking. I have the motorized equatorial mount. I have the gear to connect the mount and smaller scope with a camera to my laptop. I have the software to control them for precise tracking. I have the camera to attach to the main telescope. I have the stacking software. I don't have the luck of being free when the seeing is great, and have the unfortunate luck of always being available when the seeing is for shite.
Edit: my "old man" plans are to buy some property well outside of light pollution. that way i can just do my hobby any night there's clear skies
Edit2: there's a site in New Mexico[0] where a group has purchased some land strategically where they are at a bit of altitude, and have more nights than not of clear skies. They've it up so that you can CoLo your astro gear there, and they provided a remote connection so you can do everything remotely. For a small nominal monthly fee of course. This is my "pre-old man" plan B to research, but I feel my stuff my be too amateurish for this
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#6Would there be any interesting science to be had if we sent something to orbit Jupiter that could wait for, detect, and get us closer readings/views of such impacts?
I’m sure there would be some but of course those resources are an opportunity cost for potentially more-valuable science performed elsewhere.
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#7This is totally going to be my old man hobby.
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#8I'm stunned that there is a not a constant recording of those bodies, with some image analysis to detect anomalies like this, done by some university.
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#9I'm stunned that there is a not a constant recording of those bodies, with some image analysis to detect anomalies like this, done by some university.
The sky is big. Every telescope that can be used is looking at something.
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#10It’s amazing that amateur folks can provide this much insight these days. I worked at JPL 10 years ago and setup a pipeline for amateur Jupiter astronomers to get their images to JPL/NASA. Basically JPL figured out that these people were consistently producing such high quality data, that NASA could take advantage of it for the Juno mission. Glad to see this in the news :).