LCROSS impact anticlimactic
Posted in Current Events, General on October 14th, 2009 by Peter LipscombTalk about all dressed-up with no place to go. I planned to record the impact of the LCROSS mission from the driveway in front of my house. I lugged out and set-up my Meade LX200 10″ telescope, firewire camera and laptop. Impact was scheduled for 5:31AM local time.
While setting up, I caught sight of a massive fireball to the northwest. I estimate it was -7 magnitude. It left a luminous smear on my retina as it sparked with ablation towards the western horizon. Once I finished getting the gear ready, I covered it to protect it from what I sensed would be a heavy dew and went inside to get a nap.
