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Yet another Jupiter impact!? August 20, seen from Japan

22 Aug 2010, 22:03 UTC
Yet another Jupiter impact!? August 20, seen from Japan
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This may be a very common event after all: another optical flash has been observed on Jupiter, again from an observer far east of the Greenwich meridian, though it was not Anthony Wesley (for once). This time it was Japanese amateur astronomer Masayuki Tachikawa who was pointing a video camera-equipped telescope at Jupiter and who was fortunate to capture an optical flash as it happened. Here's the video: Optical flash on Jupiter captured ....

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