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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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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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