Astroblog: More Temple 1

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

More Temple 1

Just a brief note. Phil Platt and Tom's Astroblog discuss the science of the Temple 1 impact. The Deep Impact site has yet more images and videos. There are more fantastic images at the Hubble site. More stuff from gound based telescopes, a GIF movie of the impact (Images before the encounter were taken remotelly from Badlands Observatory, South Dakota, (26-inch with AP8)and after encounter from Ironwood Observatories, Hawaii, (C14 with FLI Dream Machine, via Vishnu Reddy). The ESO telescopic campaign has some nice info up, including a "how to make a crater" demonstration for kids.

For us visual observers with small scopes, the brightening does not appear to be dramatic. Perhaps it might go up to magnitude 9, but maybe not.

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 7:42 am

Comments:

Ian, I thought you might like to know that ESO have a live webcast of their results on 5th July at 05.00 CEST. I guess that that hour of the day is more reasonable for you than me!

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Anonymous : 8:44 am

Thanks for the heads up Stuart, but I just couldn't connect to their server, even though I tried at 5 minute intervals just before and during the webcast. Oh well.

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