LCROSS The Mission

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LCROSS The Mission files from john

planning the ground-based observations using the great observatories of the world to be centered around the great telescopes But we also think that amateur astronomers with backyard telescopes will be able to get very good views of the LCROSS impact. So we're encouraging amateur astronomers to take images and to share these images with us, because these could be very valuable for us scientifically.

We're also looking to have the amateur astronomers track the spacecraft during those big looping LGALRO orbits. To image the spacecraft as it flies on its way in the mission. The question arose: Is that really possible with amateur backyard telescopes? And the answer is yes. So, what is it we're expecting to see? Well, on a time frame of just the first few seconds, there will be this thermal flash, this real bright flash caused by the heat generated when the centaur hits the surface. Over the next minute or so there will be this plume that will expand high up into the Moon's sky. That will arch up to the point where it's out of the shadow of the crater, and it will be illuminated by the sunlight. That's when we're hoping everybody will be able to start catching images

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