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Astromut (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 922113 United States 11/09/2011 12:07 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks for all the support guys, I mean it. Looks like the clouds finally came to ruin our fun, but at least we had a good view of it for a few hours there. Goodnight all. I'll calculate the orbit again using the data from tonight sometime when I get the chance. |
Tex Dingo User ID: 1432967 United States 11/09/2011 12:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks for all the support guys, I mean it. Looks like the clouds finally came to ruin our fun, but at least we had a good view of it for a few hours there. Goodnight all. I'll calculate the orbit again using the data from tonight sometime when I get the chance. Quoting: Astromut When does it make the close approach to the moon Astro? There is a dumbass hiding on your keyboard. They are between "Y" and "I" |
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Astromut (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 922113 United States 11/09/2011 12:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So I assume it has already passed the moon then? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2980207 Thanks for the live stream Astromut! Not yet, but it will. It was right where JPL said it would be. The orbit I calculated for it was also in agreement with theirs. I'll calculate the orbit again using the data from tonight's video later, I'm too sleepy to do it right this minute but it should also show good agreement with the JPL data during the close approach (though 1 night of observation isn't enough for accuracy in long term predictions) |
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burpinflyz User ID: 1544256 United States 11/09/2011 12:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | live video is down, but lets keep early links open so others can click and curse. Hey mods, can you help update the opening links so others can save time? Last Edited by Golfinsocal on 11/09/2011 12:22 AM |
TBar1984 User ID: 1537588 United States 11/09/2011 12:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks Astro. The Keck Observatory was supposed to be filming it right now but they are fogged in. They are waiting and jawboning at present. [link to www.ustream.tv] |
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Astromut (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 922113 United States 11/09/2011 12:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks Astro. Quoting: TBar1984 The Keck Observatory was supposed to be filming it right now but they are fogged in. They are waiting and jawboning at present. [link to www.ustream.tv] Thanks for hosting a replay of my footage man (so THAT'S why my # of subscribers suddenly exploded lol)! Here are links to the longer replays, but the ads make them more annoying (probably the last time I stream through ustream instead of justin.tv or something else): [link to www.ustream.tv] [link to www.ustream.tv] [link to www.ustream.tv] [link to www.ustream.tv] Links 2 and 3 are just short clips from when I was trying to time the start of the video recording right to make it easy to perform the data reduction later in order to calculate the orbit. 1 and 4 are the main recordings. Last Edited by Astromut on 11/09/2011 12:29 AM |
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quest User ID: 1482722 United States 11/09/2011 12:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What confuses me, is why we see NASA images from the 7th. the best one yet, as to its shape. But we dont see any from today, when it is closest. Clouds over both radio telescopes? They arnt pointed the right direction? There was an article saying they were planning the 8th to be the big picture taking day, I thought. |
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Esoteric Morgan ...in awe of many things User ID: 3539589 United States 11/09/2011 12:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks for all the support guys, I mean it. Looks like the clouds finally came to ruin our fun, but at least we had a good view of it for a few hours there. Goodnight all. I'll calculate the orbit again using the data from tonight sometime when I get the chance. Quoting: Astromut Great broadcast tonight! Thanks! At 8:09 EST, something zipped diagonally across the frame from right side to left top at great speed across the whole field. Then, at 8:22, yu55 passed by what looked like a large planetary object waxing. Once, while passing rather close to another object, I thought I saw it veer a bit off course, and yet another time I could swear I saw a large dispersal of material when it appeared to hit something head on! Man oh man, what a show you gave us tonight! Many thanks! -- TRUST THE PLAN -- .......WWG1WGA...... ____________________________ still in awe of many things |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 5002853 Australia 11/09/2011 01:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What confuses me, is why we see NASA images from the 7th. the best one yet, as to its shape. But we dont see any from today, when it is closest. Clouds over both radio telescopes? They arnt pointed the right direction? Quoting: quest 1482722 There was an article saying they were planning the 8th to be the big picture taking day, I thought. Yeah. I thought they have the most powerful telescope atop a mountain in hawaii anyway which would negate any cloud cover problem. What gives? Astromut, can you please shed some light on why there are no high quality still pictures yet? |
Astromut (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 922113 United States 11/09/2011 01:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What confuses me, is why we see NASA images from the 7th. the best one yet, as to its shape. But we dont see any from today, when it is closest. Clouds over both radio telescopes? They arnt pointed the right direction? Quoting: quest 1482722 There was an article saying they were planning the 8th to be the big picture taking day, I thought. Yeah. I thought they have the most powerful telescope atop a mountain in hawaii anyway which would negate any cloud cover problem. What gives? Astromut, can you please shed some light on why there are no high quality still pictures yet? I'm guessing they just haven't processed the images from the radio telescopes yet, but as for the optical images, at 400 meters size and over 300,000 km distance, this asteroid was about 0.27 arcseconds wide as seen from earth. You're not going to get high resolution images of the asteroid with only a quarter of an arcsecond of angular size to work with. In fact, it'll look just like a dot (which it did). |
F=ma User ID: 4437172 United States 11/09/2011 05:31 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What confuses me, is why we see NASA images from the 7th. the best one yet, as to its shape. But we dont see any from today, when it is closest. Clouds over both radio telescopes? They arnt pointed the right direction? Quoting: quest 1482722 There was an article saying they were planning the 8th to be the big picture taking day, I thought. It takes a little time to process the data. radar returns are not direct images. F=ma |
F=ma User ID: 4437172 United States 11/09/2011 05:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What confuses me, is why we see NASA images from the 7th. the best one yet, as to its shape. But we dont see any from today, when it is closest. Clouds over both radio telescopes? They arnt pointed the right direction? Quoting: quest 1482722 There was an article saying they were planning the 8th to be the big picture taking day, I thought. Yeah. I thought they have the most powerful telescope atop a mountain in hawaii anyway which would negate any cloud cover problem. What gives? Astromut, can you please shed some light on why there are no high quality still pictures yet? Keck did adaptive optics imaging and showed an image 12 pixels across. That is about as high as you can get optically. Keck is a 10 meter telescope. [link to www.ustream.tv] Last Edited by F=ma on 11/09/2011 05:35 AM F=ma |
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Astromut (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 2351684 United States 11/09/2011 08:42 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Haven't seen melancholia, but it's beyond the earth moon system now and that was the only approach of that asteroid that close for a long time to come. It'd be too dim to do the kind of video I did last night now. It's not going to suddenly swing around though; that's just hollywood. |
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Astromut (OP) Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 4211721 United States 11/09/2011 04:52 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Astro...Is Comet Elenin supposedly going to hit us or something later today? On the 9th?...And are we going to have massive Earthquakes???...WIll I still be able to sleep soundfully tonight??... Quoting: ACElenin's remnants are nowhere near us, so no, it's not going to hit us or cause earthquakes. ANd WHy did the FEMA test fail???? Quoting: ACDunno, I'm not a telecommunications expert. |
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