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.
Originally Posted by gbc
No, I don't think that will be enough. 1200mm or so would be better, IMHO.
My Minolta 600mm f/6.3 yields excellent results with a 2x extender, too bad my camerais broken....[:@]
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.
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.
Unfortunately yes. I got all excited only to have my dad share that reality with me haha. Oh well. I guess it'd be hard to see anyways over here on the East Coast. By that time, the sun will have risen. Looks like I'll be youtube-ing it or catching replays on the news.
Yeah, I'll have to do that, too. []
Most of the time the atmosphere, not aperture, will limit what you can see with telescopes in that size range. I'll try and get up and have a look tomorrow morning
Priceless!
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
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