Black impact mark on Jupiter

Yes, believe it or not, it seems that Jupiter has been hit by something and there is a jet black impact mark near its south pole. Here is an image I captured a couple of hours ago - if you have the chance to get out and see this longitude yourself then you should do it!

This sort of thing doesn't happen very often. The last one I remember was the Shoemaker-Levy impacts in 1994.

I have a page where I'll be putting my images and reports on this:
http://jupiter.samba.org/

regards, Anthony

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Outstanding work Anthony! It will be interesting to see how this story unfolds.

Very cool.

Thanks,
Peter

More images can be seen here:

http://jupiter.samba.org

Already a higher res version there shows multiple impact marks.

cheers, Anthony

Just saw a newsflash about your photo on spaceweather.com...
Great work Anthony!
MB

Great job, Anthony! These amateur astronomy forums are great. Better than the mainstream media.

Great discovery Anthony. You've made history and the world news!!

Jeff

Thanks Jason, and to the others for the comments. I'll come back when the media frenzy dies down in a day or so...

cheers, Anthony

Anthony,

Great going, Anthony! Your perserverance and imaging skills paid off. This kind of event validates all our efforts. Thanks and regards from Northern Virginia.

Bob

Wow, awesome Anthony. You just made the NBC evening news in US with Brian Williams.

Congrats!
Kevin