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Reader note: LCROSS was recorded in the Santa Cruz Mountains in CA last night with an amateur telescope. The animated gif was just posted on their website, http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/ or a direct link to the recording is found here http://www.backyardastronomer.com/lcross/LCROSS-20090629-anim2.gif The ephemeris was found using JPL's Horizons web server, available to the public at http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/
Amateur Astronomer Sights LCROSS
Correction - there were two observations of LCROSS this weekend, one in the Santa Cruz mountains, and the other (the one you have the link to) from the Sierra Remote Observatories, using a 16" telescope. The linked animation should be credited to the Sierra Remote Observatory, also run by amateur astronomers, and also using JPL Horizons.
As much as I hate to come off as a pooper, at least we're getting some public multimedia excitement & news from the Dynamic Moon Duo (LCROSS and LRO). So far only three images & two videos from LCROSS and zip from LRO for anything beyond lift off. Someone needs to get in touch with the "raw image" team from the MER project. Let us have the images and data!
WRT Geordi's comment, LCROSS is moving to post some more images and spectra very soon. Also, we are hoping to be able to release the entire Swingby data (images and spectrometers) set to PDS by end of July
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Very Nice
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ARC, GSFC and JPL move on to the Earth Moon for scientific studies.
Excellent work from the public, The impact should be a exciting event to observe.