Various Observatories:

Keck Observatory:

• G impact in IR.(2.2 microns) July 18, 1994.(68k). Remnant of impact A can be seen at lower left.
• Jupiter impact site: C,A,E,H, & G at various wavelengths.(138k). Wavelengths: 1.28, 1.64, 2.12, 2.26, 3.08, 3.41, 4.00 microns.

Kitt Peak Observatory (Univ. of AZ):

• Comet approaching Jupiter at time of B impact.(98k)

Calar Alto:

• Four frames showing A impact (IR), Io visible in upper right.July 16, 1994(228k). A time sequence of four frames showing the impact of fragment A of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 into Jupiter. The upper left frame shows Jupiter just before impact. The bright object to the right is the closest Galilean satellite Io, and the fainter oval structure in the southern hemisphere is the Great Red Spot. The polar caps appear bright at the wavelength of the observations, 2.3 um, which was selected to maximize contrast between the fireball and the jovian atmosphere. The small dark spots on Jupiter are artifacts from Io in these simple differenced images. In the second frame (exp. time 2s x 5), taken from Spain at UT 20:17:10 on July 16, the fireball appears above the southeast (lower left) limb of the planet. The fireball flared to maximum brightness within a few minutes, at which time its flux surpassed that of Io. The third frame (UT 20:21:23) was taken near this maximum, and therefore has a shorter exposure time and was stretched differently; this frame should not be used for quantitative comparisons. By UT 20:42:04 (fourth frame), the impact zone had faded significantly, although it remained visible for the three hours that we were able to observe Jupiter. The fireball was fainter at 1.7um and not directly visible at 1.5um. Further monitoring suggests that the bright zone may be rotating slower than the cloud deck on Jupiter, possibly implying that the fireball is high in jovian atmosphere. The bright spot remained visible for at least three hours, by which time Jupiter was too low to permit further observations. These images were taken at the German-Spanish 3.5 meter telescope on Calar Alto in southern Spain, using the near infrared camera developed by the Max-Planck-Institut fur Astronomie in Heidelberg, Germany.
  
• Six impact zones in IR (G,D,H,E,F,A) taken July 18, 1994.(111k). An image of Jupiter taken from the Calar Alto 3.5 meter telescope on at 22:45 GMT on July 18 1994, a few hours after the impact of Fragment H from Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The image was taken in the infrared at a wavelength of 1.7 microns in order to enhance the contrast between Jupiter and the impact sites. The bright object just off Jupiter's disk to the upper right is the satellite Ganymede. The large oval near the center is the Great Red Spot, and each of the six fainter blobs near the bottom of the image are impact sites. From right to left, the spots are: G2, D4, H1, F3, E4, A6 where the letter refers to the impacting fragment and the number refers to the number of times the impact site has rotated into view (i.e. F3 has appeared on the Earth-facing side of Jupiter for the third time). Two pairs of spots (G2, D4 and F3, E4) lie close together. Jupiter rotates once in approximately 10 hours.

South African Astronomical Observatory:

• S impact July 21, 1994.(121k). Images of impact of fragment S. First image at 1509 UT, 5 min interval, 30 sec exposure, K band 0.75m by Kaz Zekiguchi. Telescope problems cause image blurring at times. Last image at 1555 SAST. South African Astronomical Observatory.

Mt. Stromlo Observatories:

• K impact.(102k)

SPIREX:

• Sequence of images showing L impact.(134k). Fragment L of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 slams into Jupiter near the still glowing remnant of the older K impact. In the upper left frame, only the K site is visible. The images were taken starting (top left) at 22:11 UT on July 19 (5:11 p.m. Chicago time). Subsequent images were taken at 22:20, 22:27, 22:39, 22:44 and 22:59 UT.
  These near infrared images were taken with the South Pole Infrared Explorer (SPIREX), a 24-inch telescope at the south pole.

Palomar Observatory

• Polar orthographic mosaic of Jupiter made from three near-IR images taken at the 5-m Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory on July 23. Wavelength is 2.00microns. The image is a perspective view looking at Jupiter's south pole from directly below. Individual images were taken over a period of 6 hours with 9 visible impact sites observed. Clockwise from the top of the image, the impact sites are: l, K/W, H, Q1, R, and G/S. (Feature R appears as a faint westward extension of G). (Cornell University/Caltech/Air&Space Museum).

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