Live webcast from the Keck of asteroid flyby

[Quark]

Hi All,

Have attached a link to the live webcast tonight from the Keck telescopes at the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Should be most interesting.

http://keckobservatory.org/news_preview/live_webcast_keck_telescope_to_watc h_asteroid_flyby/http://planetary.org

Regards
Trevor

[Allan_L]

Broadcast time of 9:00 PM PST = 4pm this afternoon (sydney time AEDT), right?
(ie: very soon)

thanks for the link

[pvelez]

Cool - when is the flyby?

Pete

[Saturn%5]

Just great to watch.
Thanks for link.

[erick]

Just jumped on - good broadcast, very informative!

Thanks Trevor.

[erick]

First Keck image up now!

About 0.5 sec exposure, they say.

[Quark]

Pretty interesting stuff, just as the first Keck II image came up a massive electrical storm arrived out here at Broken Hill so had to shut down and pull all the plugs. Was interesting that the size of the asteroid appeared to be only half that of what had earlier been predicted.

Was great to get such a birds eye view into the Keck II control room, doesn't appear to have changes at all from 2008 when I had the honor of observing with Keck II for two nights in this same control room at Keck HQ in Waimea.

Cheers
Trevor