Darren Davis wrote:
Is anyone planning on observing the Tempel 1 impact tonight?
We've been using the Big Scope at SPOC to observe it the past few nights. It's very faint and diffuse but we have been able to see it. We'll be there again tonight dividing our time between watching the comet through the observatory scopes and watching a live satellite feed from NASA on NASA Television (we just got the equipment installed for that yesterday). It wasn't supposed to be a public event (We were fearful the public will be disappointed by the view) but I see one of the SLC papers mentioned the "Wallop Watch" in today's issue so I guess the cat is out of the proverbial bag. Feel free to come on out and let's hope the crowd is not too large. Patrick