LCROSS Lunar Impact |
LCROSS Lunar Impact |
Oct 9 2009, 02:19 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
T minus 9 hrs. 10 min till impact. NASA TV coverage begins @ 1015 GMT (0315 PDT). Link to coverage here.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 9 2009, 03:06 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
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Oct 9 2009, 03:11 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1453 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
You've had much better luck with simulating it in Celestia with that add-on than I. In Celestia, I had the moon behind the Centaur as seen from LCROSS, and there doesn't seem to be the moon in the live feed.
-------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Oct 9 2009, 03:19 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1229 Joined: 24-December 05 From: The blue one in between the yellow and red ones. Member No.: 618 |
O.K. Bend over please.
This may sting a little. -------------------- My Grandpa goes to Mars every day and all I get are these lousy T-shirts!
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Oct 9 2009, 04:15 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
(Ouch!!!!!!)
Astro0, what's the FOV of that Celestia view? Reason I ask is that the Moon wasn't visible in the post-separation raw images as far as I could see; just curious. (Great composition, BTW, as per your usual!) (EDIT: I see that Hungry already mentioned that.) -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Oct 9 2009, 05:51 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Humph.
Stupid Moon. Have to go to work, so I'll miss the whole thing. (scuffs toes on ground) Not fair. Have fun everyone! Looking forward to hearing all about it when I get back. -------------------- |
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Oct 9 2009, 06:26 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
nprev... I've got no idea of the FOV for that image...I just thought it looked nice and helped orient me to the 'real' image...not even sure if it's right! Remember me I'm the 'artist' not the scientist
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Oct 9 2009, 07:12 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1453 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
...Reason I ask is that the Moon wasn't visible in the post-separation raw images as far as I could see; just curious. Is this the terminator of the moon in the lower-left corner of the IR image? If so, it may suggest either a very narrow FOV, or simply that the moon is quite off-centre from the image. http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/lcross-c...separation2.jpg -------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Oct 9 2009, 07:16 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Here's the moon as I see it now, ignorant mode here, where's the impact site in this photo?
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Oct 9 2009, 07:22 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1453 Joined: 26-July 08 Member No.: 4270 |
Haha, it's the very southern point in that image. I don't suspect your image is detailed enough to resolve Cabeus crater.
-------------------- -- Hungry4info (Sirius_Alpha)
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Oct 9 2009, 07:25 AM
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Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
Here's the moon as I see it now, ignorant mode here, where's the impact site in this photo? It's at the left tip of the lighted side in that image Rui/ -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Oct 9 2009, 08:43 AM
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Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2168 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
Thanks guys!
-------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Oct 9 2009, 08:53 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1278 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
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Oct 9 2009, 09:34 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1278 Joined: 25-November 04 Member No.: 114 |
Every time I see the impact story on the news, the media tends to over play the impact.
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Guest_Zvezdichko_* |
Oct 9 2009, 09:38 AM
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I can already see that. Bombing the Moon, that's it. Fortunately or not, we're living in a sci-fi shaped world. And there are people who are afraid of the impact. But there's no danger. Impacts occur very often.
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