NASA has announced the time&TV coverage of Lcross impact

ynotdu

There will be two impacts the Spacecraft and the final stage engine that put it in orbit around the moon.Hopefully the telescope in Hawaii will catch the estimated eight mile dust cloud it will throw up.In Ireland NASA TV coverage will start at 11.15 AM Friday morning with impact scheduled for 12.30 PM.

LCROSS Lunar Impact
7:31 a.m. EDT/4:31 a.m. PDT
Friday Oct. 9

An approximately 1.5 hour Live NASA TV Broadcast is planned for the LCROSS impacts starting at 6:15 a.m. EDT/3:15 a.m. PDT, Oct. 9, on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/ntv.

The broadcast includes:

• Live footage from spacecraft camera
• Real-time telemetry based animation
• Views of LCROSS Mission and Science Operations
• Broadcast commentary with expert guests
• Prepared video segments
• Views of the public impact viewing event at NASA Ames
• Possible live footage from the University of Hawaii, 88-inch telescope on Mauna Kea.

The live LCROSS Post-Impact News Conference will be 10 a.m. EDT/7 a.m. PDT on NASA TV and www.nasa.gov/ntv.

Stargate

Tnx for the update ynotdu

ynotdu

Stargate wrote: »

Tnx for the update ynotdu

Your MORE than welcome Stargate,I reckon it will be better than a Carlos Sentana Concert!:pac:

*ynotdu gets removed from stargates christmas card list*

Conor108

Goddamit I'll be in school

Sleipnir

ynotdu wrote: »

LCROSS Lunar Impact
7:31 a.m. EDT/4:31 a.m. PDT
Friday Oct. 9

So that's 11:31 UTC which is 12:31 BST.

Beeker

I'll be in work but will have it on in the background. hope I have a quite day!

Dr Pepper

I read on APOD today that it could be visible in 10"+ scopes. Anybody know/guess if the impact be visible in daylight (i.e. here)? According to Stellarium the moon will be up at 11:30 tomorrow (20 degrees above the horizon in the West). I'd imagine the sunlit dust cloud will be 'washed out' by the daylight for observers here though.

/ edit - Doh! Make that 12 degrees above the horizon at 12:30

Dr Pepper

I got a reply to this question over on irishastronomy.org. It seems the only way to see anything from here is on NASA TV! More observing and general LCROSS information is available here and here.

Can't wait to see the pictures & results from this!

mike65

Is there a camera on the nose of this thing?

Beeker

mike65 wrote: »

Is there a camera on the nose of this thing?

Yeah it has one visible and four near-infared and mid-infared cameras on board. We should see video maybe at a slower rate than normal video as it will be a series of digital still taken at a high rate. At least thats my understanding of it

Beeker

Getting good shots of the moon now!

Turtwig

Beeker wrote: »

Getting good shots of the moon now!

Where you getting the shots??
All I'm getting is a passionate talk of the mission..
T - 38 mins

Edit : Nm, I'm only streaming audio :mad:

mike65

Mission Control is a bit dissapointing to be honest.

Beeker

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/

Video here!

aidan18

Unfortunately with all the cloud cover here in Dublin city your not going to see much

Beeker

mike65 wrote: »

Mission Control is a bit dissapointing to be honest.

Well it's not quite a Shuttle mission, thats for sure.

Dr Pepper

Beeker, what are you watching? I don't seem to be able to get anything on this page:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

They might have a limited number of connections to that video stream (which will undoubtedly have been reached by now).

EDIT - Sorry, never mind, just saw subsequent posts!

lord lucan

I'm watching it here:http://spaceflightnow.com/lcross/status.html

Turtwig

lord lucan wrote: »

I'm watching it here:http://spaceflightnow.com/lcross/status.html

Awesome, but weird, I've got video for that one...


Thank you So MUCH!!:D

Beeker

Malty_T wrote: »

Awesome, but weird, I've got video for that one...


Thank you So MUCH!!:D

You cant beat technology!!:D

lord lucan

If you're at home and have sky news active they're showing it on there too.

lostexpectation

is there no other astronomies streaming what they are seeing i know, nasatv will be best placed but others less good cameras may give context.
i have the two nasa streams up now, bit better via spaceflightnow

SkepticOne

Watching NASA tv on the web. Interesting to see each subsequent image of the surface of the moon get larger as the spacecraft dives in.

In_tuition

lostexpectation wrote: »

is there no other astronomies streaming what they are seeing i know, nasatv will be best placed but others less good cameras may give context.
i have the two nasa streams up now, bit better

the picture of the moon on the spaceflightNow link is from on board, you won't get better. the link there too is ahead of everything else even the tv

Beeker

lostexpectation wrote: »

is there no other astronomies streaming what they are seeing i know, nasatv will be best placed but others less good cameras may give context.
i have the two nasa streams up now, bit better

They are hoping for live footage from the University of Hawaii, 88-inch telescope on Mauna Kea, you could try their web site!

Scruff

60 seconds...!!!

SkepticOne

Impact!

Scruff

er....no impact plume?

Turtwig

Scruff wrote: »

er....no impact plume?

It's the moon, no atmosphere...

Sleipnir

(Silent) BOOM!

In_tuition

To think I missed a nice dinner to watch this crap :eek:

Sleipnir

Malty_T wrote: »

It's the moon, no atmosphere...

There would still be a debris plume regardless.

SkepticOne

A bit of tension in some of the voices there at the last minute.

Chardee MacDennis

Malty_T wrote: »

It's the moon, no atmosphere...

makes no difference, there should still be an impact plume

lostexpectation

Beeker wrote: »

They are hoping for live footage from the University of Hawaii, 88-inch telescope on Mauna Kea, you could try their web site!

yeah have some bad tilted view of screen there, don't know what im looking at

http://dln.nasa.gov/dln/content/webcast/

when we we see video of the dust cloud? we should have seen it straight away

thecommander

Malty_T wrote: »

It's the moon, no atmosphere...

You'll still get debris thrown up. It doesnt need air for that.

mike65

How dusty is Arizona?

We'll have to wait for images from the various telescopes ranged on the crash site.

Scruff

Malty_T wrote: »

It's the moon, no atmosphere...

atmosphere has nothing to do with it. you smash things together and bits fly off, even in space :eek:

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Anticlimax anyone?!

lostexpectation

but i thought nasa has their other satillite looking live

lostexpectation

replay http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVyEOFfv_lo

le_girl

I think that the second camera on this page is the Hawaii telescope: http://www.mmto.org/lcross/

I didn't see anything happen on it though.

lord lucan

lostexpectation wrote: »

but i thought nasa has their other satillite looking live

They do but they reckon it'll be another couple of hours before the data is sent back.

Turtwig

Scruff wrote: »

atmosphere has nothing to do with it. you smash things together and bits fly off, even in space :eek:

Yeah but a dust plume is alot harder to see..

Turtwig

Were any space scopes looking at this?

Beeker

Might be wrong but I don't think it went quite as planned. We should have seen the dust and debris from the first impact. There was also a lot of confusion near the end "November or Mick confirm....Yes Mike". strikes me as not as smooth as it should have been.
Disapointed but lets wait for the results!

Dr Pepper

Malty_T wrote: »

Were any space scopes looking at this?

I read yesterday, Hubble was going to be trained on it. Could be hours/days before we get those pics though.

Scruff

Malty_T wrote: »

Yeah but a dust plume is alot harder to see..

still hasnt anything to do with atmosphere or lack of...
They had expected that it would be visible with 10" telescopes. This doesnt seem to have been the case. If the cameras on the space craft only a couple of hundred miles and closing couldnt see the plume them there isnt any real hope for small telescoped on earth.
Maybe some of the other onboard sesnors picked it but, will have to wait and see.

Beeker

Chap with the beard kept shaking his head, wonder did he know something was not going quite to plan????Attachments

Turtwig

Scruff wrote: »

still hasnt anything to do with atmosphere or lack of...
They had expected that it would be visible with 10" telescopes. This doesnt seem to have been the case. If the cameras on the space craft only a couple of hundred miles and closing couldnt see the plume them there isnt any real hope for small telescoped on earth.
Maybe some of the other onboard sesnors picked it but, will have to wait and see.

Apologies, I'd just thought from watching it that the dust wouldn't have been that visible, but if they were expecting it to be visible to 10", then we really should have seen something...shoudn't we??

Beeker

NASA TV sure ended the coverage very soon after the event. Interesting to see what the news conference will say later.