I have reserved the Grim for that time, as a private video session but visitors are listed as welcome. Being as it's early on a Friday morning, most people would probably have to take the morning off work to make it- or plan on commuting to work from Stansbury afterwards. As of now, my plan is to record the event with my Hi-def hard-drive camcorder and use my 7" LCD monitor to visually aim the telescope at the impact site, although the camera has a nice 3" LCD screen built-in. It is probable that any visual flash is so brief that it might not be noticed in real-time, and require slo-mo replay to be seen over perhaps only a few frames. A debris cloud illuminated by sunlight will be longer-lasting but of lower contrast. Should be interesting, no matter what happens. I also have a Meade B&W "electronic eyepiece" that we can attach to the Ealing or Bogdan scope if someone wants to reserve one of those, and can supply a monitor with RCA connector input for a video feed. On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:
Because of these uncertainties, I have not been recommeding a formal club event built around LCROSS. It may be possible to build a club event around acquiring images of the Centaur booster in cruise orbit over the next three months. On the other hand, there have only been two major U.S. missions to the Moon since Apollo (Clementine and Prospector). A once in 10-20 year event is worth monitoring.