FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] Re: SMART-1 impact

[Tom Polakis <tpolakis@xxxxxxx>]

Brian,

You might be able to estimate the duration of the visibility of the plume from 
this time-lapse animation done by the Canada France Hawaii Telescope.  Looks 
like it's less than a minute.

http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/News/Smart1/

The ESA site states that the flash lasted less than a second, but provides no 
more information than that.  And you're not alone in being unable to find any 
published photometry of the flash.  I haven't read of any visual sightings of 
it -- only that one C8/Webcam image.

Tom


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> I was going to try to wwatch this, but the weather intervened - BIG
> TIME!
> 
> Anyway, I've seen various photos and descriptions, but nowhere can I
> tell what magnitude, and what duration the impact flash was. Anybody
> know? Just curious if I wouold have been able to see it through the
> eyepiece.
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