A well known and time worn and tested method (still utilized by current surveyors) in assessing height of objects above the surface of the Earth is suddenly qualified as, "...quite the stretch..."?
Yes, much like when a few of us used your method of measuring the distance to the sun a few months back and all got radically different results. Based upon that I would hardly take your word for how to measure anything.
It might perhaps be helpful for the OP to explain how the object known as Jupiter is related to the flat earth and its inhabitants.
That's the question for FET. If in FET all of the celestial bodies hover over the flat earth approximately 3000+ miles high, what is causing jupiter to rotate and what is causing its moons to rotate around it? RET has an explanation, we await FET's.
How do you know Jupiter is rotating, for one, and how do you know it has moons orbiting around it?
Does the spot pac-man, magically disappearing on one side then at an interval magically appearing on the other? Hardly seems logical nor realistic.
How do I know Jupiter is rotating? Because I have seen it rotating through my telescopes. I take it you don't have a telescope then otherwise you would be able to see the same thing I do. I can send you images of the red spot moving across the disk if you wish. Not a problem for me. Images that I took by the way with my own equipment with no funding (sadly!) from NASA.
You see a red spot on the surface of any object and come to the conclusion that because you see the red spot moving the object must be moving?
I find this conclusion to be highly dubious.
I have observed Jupiter through a telescope in my astronomy class while in college. I wasn't able to ascertain any rotation.
Further, I doubt you are in possession of a 30K USD instrument of any form and fashion.
Just because you weren't able to ascertain any rotation is hardly an argument against the the many, many who have and do. Coupled with what has been proven to be your somewhat suspect observational skills, I find you assertion dubious at best.
Further, one does not have to "possess" a telescope, one may simply peer through one of any quality or price given access.