Moon bombing

[gbc]

on Friday, October 9, at 7:31AM Eastern/4:31AM Pacific NASA is launching projectiles into the moon to look for signs of water.


from:http://gizmodo.com/5376774


"The effects of the impact—a plume projected to bethirty miles high—will be observable from Earth using telescopes larger than 10 inches."


Anyone have any any idea if anything at all will be viewable through a 300mm lens? on a 1.6 crop body? I'd like to see it, but i don't want to get up at 7AM unless i have to.

[Daniel Browning]

Anyone have any any idea if anything at all will be viewable through a 300mm lens? on a 1.6 crop body? I'd like to see it, but i don't want to get up at 7AM unless i have to.

No, I don't think that will be enough. 1200mm or so would be better, IMHO.

[Fast Glass]

My Minolta 600mm f/6.3 yields excellent results with a 2x extender, too bad my camerais broken....[:@]

[Don Burkett]

The discussion thread that follows the article had me in stitches.


Thank you so much for sharing.


Note to all... Read the thread - insanity and sarcasm at it's best.

[Maleko]

Note to all... Read the thread - insanity and sarcasm at it's best.
<div style="CLEAR: both"]</div>

Priceless!

[Maleko]

If you missed it and wanted to see it I recorded it and have uploaded it to my blog:


<span style="color: #800080;"]http://blog.maleko.co.uk/news.php?item.37.1

[Jon Ruyle]

ell, I got up at 4am yesterday morning and wasn't able to see the collision.


However, the telescope had been outside for five hours and the scope had cooled completely and the view of the moon was extremely steady. The image was sharp even over 500x.


So I figured, collision or not, I might as well try a picture. I would have liked to get a wider view but the 5DII won't come to focus in the 12 1/2" without a barlow.


[img]/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.00.25.93/moon-wide.jpg[/img]


5D II with starmaster 12 1/2" dob 3175mm @ f/10 1/40 sec iso 400


The above is cropped to full frame equivalent of about 6400mm. Below is a further crop.


[img]/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Components.UserFiles/00.00.00.25.93/moon_2D00_2.JPG[/img]

[Maleko]

Aweosme shot there jon!

[Chuck Lee]

I would have liked to get a wider view but the 5DII won't come to focus in the 12 1/2" without a barlow.

Cool Shots Jon.


I must confess, I had to wiki "barlow".

[ShutterbugJohan]

"The effects of the impact&mdash;a plume projected to bethirty miles high&mdash;will be observable from Earth using telescopes larger than 10 inches."

Is the size of the telescope measured in diameter? I have access to a telescope with a diameter of about 4 inches, and it is about 14 inches long.