LCROSS: Impact Crater Finders
Joe, There are two parts to your question: illumination (71% of the Moon in west 2nd qtr phase illumination) and libration. The Lammel image at the top of url: http://groups.google.com/group/lcross_observation/web/finders is the closest image available to the target illumination of . As to libration, there isn't one. The only thing that is available are simulated images that taken photos at the approximate libration and rotate them digitally to the correct libration. There is an image at the bottom of the above url that I put together from one of my poor images. If better images that are libration corrected become available, I'll let you know. The latest best professional image of the impact area was made using a finder for the Gemini-N scope and was released a few hours ago. It is file "cabeus_region_pointing_Cabeus_A1.pdf" in the files area of the LCROSS observation group. http://groups.google.com/group/lcross_observation/files Use the sorted links to sort the list to either by descending date or by filename to locate it. Although the matter remains uncertain, this is shaping up to be a non-observable event from amatuers due to the crater location. It's looking like the best observing spot is in front of the dish TV with a beer watching NASA TV. - Kurt
Thanks, Kurt. So it's probably not worthwhile setting up my 12". But I hope one of the SPOC telescopes will be able to observe it. -- Joe --- On Sat, 9/12/09, Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote: From: Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] LCROSS: Impact Crater Finders To: "Utah Astronomy List Serv" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 4:41 PM Joe, There are two parts to your question: illumination (71% of the Moon in west 2nd qtr phase illumination) and libration. The Lammel image at the top of url: http://groups.google.com/group/lcross_observation/web/finders is the closest image available to the target illumination of . As to libration, there isn't one. The only thing that is available are simulated images that taken photos at the approximate libration and rotate them digitally to the correct libration. There is an image at the bottom of the above url that I put together from one of my poor images. If better images that are libration corrected become available, I'll let you know. The latest best professional image of the impact area was made using a finder for the Gemini-N scope and was released a few hours ago. It is file "cabeus_region_pointing_Cabeus_A1.pdf" in the files area of the LCROSS observation group. http://groups.google.com/group/lcross_observation/files Use the sorted links to sort the list to either by descending date or by filename to locate it. Although the matter remains uncertain, this is shaping up to be a non-observable event from amatuers due to the crater location. It's looking like the best observing spot is in front of the dish TV with a beer watching NASA TV. - Kurt _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php Visit the Wiki: http://www.utahastronomy.com
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