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

["Workman, Brian \(AZ76\)" <brian.workman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Thanks Tom. That's exactly the kind of info I was looking=20
 for. Too bad it happened smack in the middle of a downpour.=20


> > Soon after the impact, Andrew Cooper posted a link to a time-lapse=20
> > sequence by an amateur with a C8 and a Webcam.
> > His name is Peter Lipscomb, and he resides in Santa Fe.  He very=20
> > quickly replied to my query about the brightness of the impact, and=20
> > gave me permission to forward his message to this mailing list.
> >=20
> > Based on his and the CFHT team's estimate of magnitude 5, it sounds=20
> > like it would have been easily visible in a small telescope.  Stars=20
> > that are no brighter than magnitude 5 can be seen next to=20
> the moon's=20
> > bright limb right before or after occultations.
> >=20
> > That's not the answer I wanted to hear.  Since we were clouded out,=20
> > the "sour grapes" part of me wanted to hear that the impact was not=20
> > visible.
> >=20
> > Tom
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