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

Doom Off it missed us

Swirly thing!!!

Go to Blue Alert!

Nothing happened, as always, goodnight everyone.

AstroMut is here Thread: Come see live video of 2005 YU55!!!

"A team from the Clay Center Observatory in Brookline, Massachusetts, will use the facility’s 25-inch telescope to track and image the asteroid. The team anticipates locking onto the asteroid well before 6:00 p.m. EST and tracking it until approximately 3:00 a.m. EST the following morning."

[link to www.clayobservatory.org]

"The Clay Center Observatory in Brookline, Mass., planned an all-night viewing party so children and parents could peer through research-grade telescopes and listen to lectures. The asteroid can't be detected with the naked eye."

[link to www.boston.com]

we still have until the 15 some one said...

IT MISSED US!

Thread: HAHAHA IT MISSED! DOOM OFF

WOOHOO someone who actually knows what the f*c*s going on

NASA New asteroid on risk list 2011 UW158

it missed us but its slowing the fuck way down.

No doom, dang.

[link to www.space.com]

Oops, my bad: Hoagy will be live at 7 PT explaining whatever it is he explains. (c:

[link to www.livestream.com]

I'm still depressed I didn't get my Doom with a view at slooh.

Under the screen it says:

Asteroid show #2 will begin at 6:00 PM PST - 02:00 UTC - we are pulling a feed from AZ - Also, we may have Dr. McMillan back as a guest.

OK, so that's 9:00 PM Eastern Time for beginning of coverage. That sound right based on the above message on the site?

The streaks are stars. The asteroid is moving at a different rate than the stars. The telescope is following the asteroid so the stars appear as streaks.

The little dots are bad pixels. All ccds have a few bad pixels. They can appear as black or white.

They clearly stated at the beginning of the show that they would run for an hour. They got busy talking and taking calls, and before you know it, time was up.

Clean MISS!

It turned around and is coming back!

Alright, the slooh site says about 15 mins...til coverage begins.

I'm in eastern WV and just went out and looked. The moon is roughly south-east at about a 45 degree elevation. There is a planet? at about 7:00 o'clock that is fairly close to the moon.

The way the diagrams look, this thing should be traveling 'above' the moon, so higher than 45 degrees, maybe almost straight up, and it should be traveling right to left.

I looked all over and don't see anything yet. But with the way the moon is 'shining' (reflecting), there ought to be SOME light hitting this thing enough so that we ought to be able to see it, right? I hope so.

Any ideas as to where in relation to the moon and relative direction, please give us your opinion.

Woo-Hooo! We be live!

hello

This is what I don't get. Description:

ear-Earth Asteroid (NEA) "2005 YU55", a dark, nearly spherical chunk of primordial space rock around 400 metres in diameter, will be making a close fly-by to Earth at 23:28UT on the 8th November 2011.


OK, so here in eastern WV, it is -5 hours from UT. So, that's 18:28 Eastern Time. BUT, that's 6:28 PM! So I must be missing something since it's already past 9 PM now.

I just hope we can see this thing on their scope with maybe the moon in view with it.

Hello to you. You watchin'?

Its not moving

Yes

where is it??nothing is moving

iget sou;nd thats it

Anyone take a good photo of this thing as it was going by or what?

Like a close up photo I mean