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Science imminent...
Posted: June 27, 2005, 11:15 am
by Arborealus
Worth keeping an eye on NASA TV/the sky this Sunday evening - Next Monday Morning. Deep Impact's Impactor is scheduled to well, impact Tempel 1 July 4th at 1:52 am...possibly visible to the naked eye depending on a lot of unknowns...the Impactor which weighs 800ish lbs should smack the coma at a relative velocity of 23k mph...
Info updates at:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/deepi ... index.html
Big Badaboom...
Posted: June 27, 2005, 12:43 pm
by Neost
I just updated the database in my goto controller in hopes of having some view of this through my telescope. It is supposed to be visible through a good pair of binoculars so I'm hoping my scope will pick it up nicely.
Posted: June 27, 2005, 1:05 pm
by Homercles
Any idea where in the night sky this is supposed to happen? In relation to a North American viewer?
Southern skies? Northern Skies? Easterly or westerly?
Posted: June 27, 2005, 2:23 pm
by Arborealus
Posted: July 3, 2005, 11:01 am
by Boogahz
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8436808/
There are more links to webcasts and such for viewing on this page.
Posted: July 4, 2005, 3:00 am
by Arborealus
Bam...now that's nice navigating...
Posted: July 4, 2005, 3:02 am
by Boogahz
Talk about precision. They had some nice preliminary pictures in the nasa.gov webcast. Now to see what they can learn from it.
Posted: July 4, 2005, 3:03 am
by Hoarmurath
Here is where we find out that Tempel-1 is sentient and we just pissed it off.
Very impressive, although I can't believe I stayed up to watch it, since I'm not really a space geek.
Posted: July 4, 2005, 3:04 am
by Boogahz
I was expecting something like a tiny chunk, but the explosion is more evident in the shots than I thought they would be.
Posted: July 4, 2005, 4:34 am
by Winnow
Amazing accomplishment. Hopefully phase 2 will go well and we get some close up images of the results.
Posted: July 4, 2005, 12:42 pm
by Neost
couldn't really see much detail with my little telescope but it was easy to detect the brightening after impact. The biggest problem I had was tracking it consistently.
I need a better telescope.
Posted: July 4, 2005, 1:38 pm
by Arborealus
Neost wrote:couldn't really see much detail with my little telescope but it was easy to detect the brightening after impact. The biggest problem I had was tracking it consistently.
I need a better telescope.
Build a newtonian...
...and buy a nice lil celestron mount/with tracking motor...
Or...
http://telescopes.com/products/Celestro ... 30993.html
