Live Telescope Stream Covering the YU55 FLYBY - - SLOOH Observatory-- Check This at 15:55 glptime

Does anyone know why the broadcast ended an hour + before the asteroid's closest approach? I was under the impression we'd get to watch it on the that site with commentary.... :/ I feel a bit cheated, lol.

The closest approach is 23:28 UTC, right?

what a site thank you.

ok now seeing the picture paused make better since to ;me...LOL...LOl...im the stupid one.....LOL..yes the streak is it....i saw 3 of what i was looking at,,,LOL,,boy am i stupid...Thank you so much

wtf ? is PPV now?

Felt like watching a movie and missing the end. That's soooo painful hey?!?!

Well done, cheers!
I do want to give you a tip for future reference, never use Comic Sans again, lol!

I'm using this and also the NASA RT simulation in another window.

[link to solarsystem.nasa.gov]
I have all the information I need about it's position, speed and distance in realtime, a 3d graphical simulation of the event and the Slooh view of the actual event.

I love living in the 21st century.

Now I'm brewing up some coffee, making a bowl and getting ready to watch the show.

When you actually have a visual representation of the positions of Earth and YU55 you really get a sense of just how close it really is.

One day an asteroid is going to be too close... it's inevitable really.

23.28 is what I heard, which is an hour from now.
but yet others are saying three hrs, so Im rightly confused.

I think prime-time for the fly-by/impact is around 8:00 PM Eastern. So the clock says about 3 hrs. 36 mins from now. So it sounds about right.

I'm thinking I'll go outside around 8-9 PM and see if I can see anything. It looks pretty clear out here in eastern WV.

i heard 6:30pm est

what gives here?

help me out with the time here :) on slooh it sdays 3hr 34 mins,
but I thought it was 11.28 which is about an hour from now??

what dose it mean ?

this mean they didnt have any telescope at all


when the time came and ewery was waiting to see the asteroid they swithed the PHOTO of


and told that the traic was to big






occupy now

im thinking all the info is screwed up:) everyone is confused now.

LOL

It is 6:28 EST. The next flyby the will be reporting will be of the flyby of the moon.

However I have no fricken clue why they would end the broadcast Prior to the asteroids closest approach, and they gave no explanation.

Let me get this straight.

The telescopes they have can zoom so far in on the moon that they can theoretically see an explosion on the surface

BUT

The Asteroid set to whiz by Earth closer than the moon is seen as a white spec?

Shit ain't adding up.

GLP is not showing us their live feed.

I was really really counting on GLP, as there would be less suspicion of tampering... just a raw feed from telescope to all of us on our devices.

Now with this Live show, it feels controlled and I'm getting the feeling they're not going to give us the real deal.

SO Disappointed you guys :(

Maybe they realized it's going to hit us?

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wow the responses in this thread?!
wtf

the page clearly said how long till the live view.
before that it showed recordings (duh)
after the live show started a new countdown started for the next live viewing (duh)

i saw the live show but couldnt see the comet is there wasnt like a circle around it or anything.

the show lasted a good lil while but i only watched it occacionaly and didnt see a thing.

so no you dont have to pay for something when it says "going live in 0:00 and yes if indeed you want a membership you have to pay.

its like glp. just cuz you can pay to be a full member it doesnt mean you cant see the live show.

They can't be that dumb to just sign off with a huge audience, really stupid move to acquiring a new potential paying member opportunity. JMO

Its tiny.

It went from a live broadcast, the host was giving his opinion on what happened to the missing belt on Jupiter and BAM back to the recorded looped video/audio.

At this very second it's still on the pre-recording.

Is that not suspect?

WTH is going on?

Were they told to take the live broadcast down?

Was the question off limits considering they had a PHD Scientist (the one who discovered 2005yu55) as a guest who would probably know what he was talking about?

I put off registering for classes today for this bullcrap.

That's exactly what it felt like, haha. Jeez.



I thought 23:28 was the "official" time (estimate?), but I'm also seeing all different times posted here. Either way, I'm trying to keep up with it, and I'm going to be tuning into Astromut's live tracking post if and when it is set up.

Got it.....1(888) 327-0061

A holy sunset to

Probably, lol

The closest approach to the earth during YU55's flyby is at 23:28.

Use this calculator to determine your exact time. Mine here on the east coast is 18:28 or 6:28.

Something simply is not right.

Sorry forgot the link:

[link to www.timeanddate.com]

Maybe it's too low? I just set Starry Night to the Canary Islands and YU55 is only 15° above the horizon and will be below it in three hours.

Anyone have another telescope?

Yes, you're right. I got confused with this too, because it was supposed to be at 8.28 AM in Japan. Also, in the link the above poster gave us it says "time to closest approach: 46 min."

BTW, that's also a good link, thanks!

Last Edited by radiexa on 11/08/2011 05:42 PM

I for one am totally confused.

All day everyone and everything said 5.28 EST which is 4.28 CST, where I am.

NOW, it's 6.28 EST which naturally is 5.28 CST.

Which is it?

Why did the damned thing end like that?

IF anyone cares, Hoagy will be live on Camelot TV in fifteen minutes @ [link to www.livestream.com]

This sucks!

I was promised a doom with a view!

(c:

Maybe it means it's not gonna be a live stream after all? (on the SLOOH site). well that's my guess but IDK..