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Watch Comet Siding Spring's Mars Fly-By, Live
From the L.A. Times, and with enough time to tune in, comes this tip:
Comet Siding Spring's closest approach to the red planet will occur at 11:27 a.m. [Pacific Time] on Sunday. At its closest approach, the comet will come within 87,000 miles of Mars. That's 10 times closer than any comet on record has ever come to Earth. Sadly, this historic flyby is not visible to the naked eye. People who live in the Southern Hemisphere have a shot at seeing the comet if they have access to a good telescope six inches or wider. However, most of us in the Northern Hemisphere will not be able to see the comet at all, experts say, no matter how big a telescope we've got. Here to save the cometary day is astronomy website Slooh.com. Beginning at 11:15 a.m PDT on Sunday, it will host a live broadcast of the comet's closest approach to Mars, as seen by the website's telescopes in South Africa and in the Canary Islands. Later in the day, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PDT, Slooh will broadcast another view of the comet from a telescope in Chile.
In the moderately glorious Warrumbungles.... http://warrumbungleregion.com....
I've got it loaded, but not expecting much of anything interesting in a "live" feed. Any earth based telescopes aren't going to have the resolution to see anything interesting and any Mars based assets are going to take a few days to send any decent resolution photos.
Slooh will bill your credit card $74.85 for quarterly membership dues.
I am aghastly afraid of the lack of this. Disney has been notified.
We have satellites and landers there, is it impossible for any of them to point a camera at it?
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
i read yesterday that the rovers would be following the comet, but that isn't mentioned here...
Shite.... all I get is loading circle 0 for ages then 'there is an error'. 1998 realplayer crap
From a potato? I can't get the feed to stay running for more than a few seconds....
Geoff Fox has been narrating many of the live events of Slooh for the last year or so. He's a great guy and very interested in Science, Technology and getting young minds excited in the subject. Geoff - move back to Connecticut! We miss you! With the loss of Mel Goldstein Connecticut no longer has any professional meteorologists or any TV personalities that are really interested in the field and in science overall. All we've had since is the stations hiring a series of attractive woman (not that I'm complaining about that part..) reading a script and giving us the weather, just a ratings thing... not inspiring as you once were on WTNH, and your short stint at FOX61.
You can follow the action at hashtag #SidingSpring
NASA, ESA, and India Space all using it.
Here's the URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1iyxouD38g
most of us in the Northern Hemisphere will not be able to see the comet at all, experts say, no matter how big a telescope we've got.
These people just may be underestimating our ability to effectively punch a hole into a planet. We only need to destroy enough to remove whatever mass is between us and that comet.
Yep, and followed the "World's (second) Largest Scale Model of the Solar System" (1:38,000,000) as we drove in.
Why would anyone engrave "Elbereth"?
fucking Pacific Time, the fuck!? Idiot.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
However, most of us in the Northern Hemisphere will not be able to see the comet at all, experts say, no matter how big a telescope we've got.
What if my telescope is both bigger and more curved than most?
Will I then be able to see the comet around Mars?
Mars only needs one moon, not TWO, to stabilize it's orbit.. Hopefully the comet might push Deimos away from Mars & towards the outer asteroid belt. That is, if they collide !