{"id":7488,"date":"2009-07-25T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-25T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/homebrew-telescope-finds-earth-sized-scar-on-jupiter\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T23:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T13:00:05","slug":"homebrew-telescope-finds-earth-sized-scar-on-jupiter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/homebrew-telescope-finds-earth-sized-scar-on-jupiter\/","title":{"rendered":"Homebrew Telescope Finds Earth-sized Scar on Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgDtmpiwZBtAJJN1QnWC-mISrfcbH6RgMNwnlEldudkPg2_nfvtn5I4joz3XcqFZt1Ktuta4M5jRyWbb8StvI8bUAPigxkkOEY1yrum35FutUbl_AA_L_ycfzJYN10cWkFbQQe8ULHoaHw\/s1600-h\/art.jupiter.impact.nasa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 292px; height: 219px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/art.jupiter.impact.nasa_.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362391068156423410\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Wow! Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley in Australia was the first one to see this new scar on Jupiter. Reminds me of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact back in 1994. I saw the results of that strike direct from my front yard in the Dominican Republic using a Tasco 4 inch reflector. (The story of that adventure is in the book, &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; A Global Adventure in Radio Electronics.&#8221;) Exciting stuff!<\/p>\n<p>Icing on the cake: The discovery was made with a HOMBREW telescope! Here is the web page of the fellow who made the discovery:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jupiter.samba.org\/\">http:\/\/jupiter.samba.org\/ <\/a><br \/>I really enjoyed reading his account of the discovery.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a news article about the event:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/space\/07\/24\/hubble.jupiter.scar\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/space\/07\/24\/hubble.jupiter.scar\/index.html<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley in Australia was the first one to see this new scar on Jupiter. Reminds me of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet impact back in 1994. I saw the results of that strike direct from my front yard in the Dominican Republic using a Tasco 4 inch reflector. (The story of that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/homebrew-telescope-finds-earth-sized-scar-on-jupiter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homebrew Telescope Finds Earth-sized Scar on Jupiter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7490,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7488\/revisions\/7490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}