FIRST IMAGE OF Q IMPACT FROM CALAR ALTO

This image was taken at the Calar Alto Observatory in Southern Spain and
shows the impact of fragment Q of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 onto Jupiter on
the 20th July 1994. The Q impact is the smaller bright spot on the limb of the
planet at the lower-left. This picture was taken with the MAGIC infrared 
system on the 3.5m telescope in a methane band at a wavelength of 2.3 microns.

We are very grateful to the Calar Alto observers for helping us to get this
image so soon after it was taken.

Observers at Calar Alto:

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

Doug Hamilton
(Max-Plack-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: Mark McCaughrean, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astronomie
         Koenigstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
         Phone: (49) 6221 528 303
         FAX:   (49) 6221 528 246
         e-mail mjm@mpia-hd.mpg.de (Internet)