Fragment A collision movie

This is a movie (HAM Anim5 format, playable by Viewtek or equivalent
on Amigas and xanim on Un*x machines) of the impact of Fragment A of
the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 on Jupiter from Saturday 16/07/94.
It consists of 100 frames taken with the 3.5m telescope of the
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie on Calar Alto (Spain).
It covers about 50min real time.

The bright object to the right is the closest Galilean satellite Io,
moving slowly towards Jupiter and behind it.  The fainter oval 
structure in the southern hemisphere is the well-known Great Red Spot.
The impact appears above the southeast (lower left) limb of the planet.

The intensity stretch in this movie is logarithmic.

We hope you'll enjoy it!

Movie production team: 

Christoph Birk, Norbert Weitzel, Rainer Koehler & Mathias Bachmann
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany)

Observers at Calar Alto:

Tom Herbst, Kurt Birkle, Ulrich Thiele 
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany) 

Doug Hamilton 
(Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)

Hermann Boenhardt, Alex Fiedler, Karl-Heinz Mantel 
(Universitaets Sternwarte Muenchen, Germany) 

Jose Luis Ortiz 
(Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Granada, Spain) 

Giovanni Calamai, Andrea Richichi 
(Osservatorio di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy) 


Contact: Rainer Koehler, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie 
         Koenigstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany 
         Phone: (49) 6221 528 216
         FAX:   (49) 6221 528 246
         e-mail koehler@mpia-hd.mpg.de (Internet)