[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by Blue Skies

By the way, only one very large professional telescope, in the metre class, managed to detect a couple of pixel-widths of explosion from Kaguya. I can't remember which scope it was, but it was an Australian one, I think.

http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jbailey/kaguya.html

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The impact of the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya on the Moon on June 10th 2009 was successfully observed from the Anglo-Australian 3.9m Telescope at Siding Spring, NSW, Australia. The observations used the IRIS-2 infrared camera and were made through a narrow band filter centered at a wavelength of 2.3 micrometres. A series of 1 second exposures were taken with 0.6 seconds dead time between exposures (so 1.6 second cycle time).