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Jul 15 2009, 03:08 PM

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While we're waiting for Those Pictures, here are a couple of shots of LCROSS from our campus observatory last night (0221, 027 UT on 15 July). 4 minute exposures tracking expected motion from the Horizons ephemeris, within 20 degrees of the southern horizon and fighting summertime haze as well as city lights. I wanted to catch it before its inclined orbit takes it too far south, after which it spends a week or so as a predawn object. The range was about 563,000 km, and the Centaur is no bigger than a CSM/LM combination, so this is a more difficult target than spotting an Apollo enroute was. (On the other hand, nobody had CCD imagers in 1969).

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Phil Stooke

Oct 3 2009, 08:45 PM

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Here's the latest info from Tony Colaprete, via the LCROSS Observation Group:

http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/docs/LCROSS_Tar...date_100209.ppt

LCROSS Observation Group:

http://groups.google.com/group/lcross_observation

And a modified version of his map:

"Centaur Impact indicated by Red circle, SSC impact indicated by Blue circle"
The shading is LOLA elevation, not hydrogen abundance.

Phil

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NGC3314 LCROSS en route Jul 15 2009, 03:08 PM

nprev Sweet!!! What's your campus scop... Jul 15 2009, 10:44 PM

NGC3314 0.4m Ritchey-Chretien, using one of the big Santa ... Jul 16 2009, 02:52 AM

Lewis007 An article on the "cold side bake-out" p... Aug 10 2009, 07:25 AM

mps LCROSS experienced an anomaly: http://www.nasa.gov... Aug 25 2009, 06:43 AM

Zvezdichko Oh, this is BAD! But they are optimistic that ... Aug 25 2009, 09:46 AM

nprev Wow. Is the IRU in question part of the Centaur it... Aug 25 2009, 12:39 PM

ugordan Hmm, I thought star trackers were the de facto met... Aug 25 2009, 01:03 PM

John Moore There were some initial problems with the star tra... Aug 25 2009, 05:00 PM

Lewis007 On August 17, LCROSS took additional images of the... Aug 26 2009, 06:41 AM

Marz Here's a Spaceflight article explaining the re... Aug 26 2009, 03:27 PM

Astro0 In response to the Spaceflight Now article, this r... Aug 27 2009, 02:12 AM

nprev Good info, all (thanks for the late-breaking, Astr... Aug 27 2009, 02:21 AM

climber More good news: http://www.spaceref.com/news/views... Sep 5 2009, 05:33 PM

Astro0 Nice memo to the LCROSS team and well deserved. I ... Sep 5 2009, 11:37 PM

climber QUOTE (Astro0 @ Sep 6 2009, 01:37 AM) I... Sep 6 2009, 11:40 AM

stevesliva QUOTE (Astro0 @ Sep 5 2009, 07:37 PM) I... Sep 6 2009, 11:37 PM

Paolo Just announced: impact in Cabeus A Sep 11 2009, 05:13 PM

Hungry4info Quick question regarding DSN time between Cassini ... Sep 11 2009, 05:16 PM

elakdawalla Anybody see any graphics online anywhere? I'v... Sep 11 2009, 05:33 PM

ugordan FWIW, this post over at the NSF.com forum has an i... Sep 11 2009, 05:55 PM

John Moore Cabeus A crater location...the impacts should be v... Sep 11 2009, 06:00 PM

Phil Stooke "Quick question regarding DSN time between Ca... Sep 11 2009, 09:15 PM

Ron Hobbs The above link doesn't work for me; try this o... Sep 11 2009, 10:33 PM

belleraphon1 For those who missed the briefing here it is on Yo... Sep 11 2009, 11:19 PM

eoincampbell Thank you for posting that very informative press ... Sep 12 2009, 05:56 AM

PhilCo126 For those hoping to see the impact; here're th... Sep 12 2009, 08:05 AM

Tman Here a GIF animation of the Moon phase and the vis... Sep 13 2009, 03:50 PM

Paolo Target crater switched from Cabeus A to Cabeus (pr... Sep 28 2009, 08:46 PM

John Moore I would think that they'll probably aim for th... Sep 29 2009, 01:03 PM

Phil Stooke http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/386497main_target-selectio... Sep 29 2009, 01:45 PM

John Moore Thanks Phil Page 19 is very useful and probably m... Sep 29 2009, 03:06 PM

tanjent Note that in the Colaprete report the Earth observ... Sep 29 2009, 04:34 PM

Phil Stooke The latest release did refer to new topographic da... Sep 29 2009, 04:55 PM

elakdawalla Ask and ye shall receive I asked your questions ... Sep 29 2009, 08:19 PM

Phil Stooke Here's a map of the approximate locations of t... Oct 2 2009, 03:30 PM

elakdawalla What are the coordinates of the different impact s... Oct 2 2009, 04:03 PM

Tman The Google group of LCROSS (amateur) Observation h... Oct 2 2009, 04:35 PM

Phil Stooke From the Observation Group website: -------------... Oct 2 2009, 08:06 PM

dmuller QUOTE (Phil Stooke @ Oct 3 2009, 06:06 AM... Oct 4 2009, 12:53 AM

John Moore Took the latter coords., -- rough idea, therefore,... Oct 2 2009, 10:41 PM

Phil Stooke Here's the latest info from Tony Colaprete, vi... Oct 3 2009, 08:45 PM

John Moore That's better! The recent DIVINER image ... Oct 4 2009, 02:01 PM

Phil Stooke This is what I get by overlaying Colaprete's m... Oct 4 2009, 02:36 PM

John Moore Isn't that exact same as in my link above? Jo... Oct 4 2009, 03:45 PM

Phil Stooke It's the image processing that's different... Oct 4 2009, 03:59 PM

centsworth_II Here's the map comparison that interests me: T... Oct 4 2009, 04:59 PM

Phil Stooke Also the map of hydrogen concentrations is very mo... Oct 4 2009, 05:07 PM

Phil Stooke This is a comparison of the points John and I matc... Oct 4 2009, 05:18 PM

JGodbaz QUOTE (centsworth_II @ Oct 5 2009, 05:59 ... Oct 5 2009, 08:10 AM

centsworth_II QUOTE (JGodbaz @ Oct 5 2009, 03:10 AM) Th... Oct 5 2009, 03:34 PM

John Moore @ Phil...ah yes...see what you mean, your points a... Oct 5 2009, 11:00 AM

Phil Stooke John, it's only the 'quote' business t... Oct 5 2009, 11:16 AM

Phil Stooke It's hard to keep these maps up to date! ... Oct 6 2009, 01:16 AM

JGodbaz Thanks, I wasn't aware of the new release. I... Oct 6 2009, 01:31 AM

Phil Stooke If it was worse, would they have chosen it? They ... Oct 6 2009, 01:37 AM

JGodbaz They don't have a lot of choice as there aren... Oct 6 2009, 01:42 AM

Phil Stooke I think you're right. I bet the site selectio... Oct 6 2009, 01:47 AM

PDP8E impact is Oct 9, 7:30am-ish local time with the su... Oct 6 2009, 03:06 AM

ElkGroveDan QUOTE (PDP8E @ Oct 5 2009, 08:06 PM) impa... Oct 6 2009, 04:12 PM

Marz QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Oct 6 2009, 11:12 AM... Oct 6 2009, 05:23 PM

MahFL "NASA to Bomb the Moon Friday " Good god... Oct 6 2009, 06:09 PM

centsworth_II QUOTE (MahFL @ Oct 6 2009, 02:09 PM) ... Oct 6 2009, 06:30 PM

centsworth_II QUOTE (MahFL @ Oct 6 2009, 01:09 PM) ... Oct 8 2009, 11:13 PM

Stu QUOTE (Marz @ Oct 6 2009, 06:23 PM) I jus... Oct 6 2009, 09:52 PM

Phil Stooke Ahh, good old Social Media! Lots of entertain... Oct 6 2009, 02:36 PM

nprev Okay, I'm convinced. Gonna dust off the ol... Oct 7 2009, 12:05 AM

AndyG I suspect it won't be up to Gervase of Canterb... Oct 7 2009, 08:52 AM

MahFL A far far better report. Good to see media coverag... Oct 8 2009, 11:50 AM

centsworth_II LCROSS audio briefing HERE. QUOTE Thursday, Oct. ... Oct 8 2009, 05:38 PM

scalbers Wonder if there are any flyover movies (or sequenc... Oct 8 2009, 07:44 PM

Phil Stooke Phil Oct 8 2009, 07:52 PM

nprev AAACKKK!!!! I thought he was gonna... Oct 8 2009, 08:14 PM

scalbers Here's a crude attempt at animating the lunar ... Oct 8 2009, 09:14 PM

nprev LCROSS- Centaur separation succesful!!... Oct 9 2009, 02:15 AM

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