impact times

coco smoko (Stephen) · #1 23-07-2009, 06:21 PM

Hi all, looking clear in Melbourne tonight. Can someone come up with the impact times for here tonight???

Steve....

DavidU (Dave) · #2 23-07-2009, 06:38 PM

I have the scope outside cooling now.
I'll have a search for times

coco smoko (Stephen) · #3 23-07-2009, 06:51 PM

im cooling now start around 10.30 steve

DavidU (Dave) · #4 23-07-2009, 06:54 PM

First clear sky in a while !
I'm in Wantirna Sth

davidpretorius · #5 23-07-2009, 06:54 PM

http://www.iceinspace.com.au/home.html

front page has details

DavidU (Dave) · #6 23-07-2009, 06:59 PM

Io & Callisto are about to transit ,GRS is dead center
Just checked Jupiter 2 software

Kal (Andrew) · #7 23-07-2009, 08:18 PM

From the front page:

2009 Jul 23 09:25 ( 216°) 19:21 ( 216°)

We are UT + 10, so that would equate to 19:25 (just passed) and 5:21am tomorrow morning

bird (Anthony Wesley) · #8 23-07-2009, 08:23 PM

I've found some clear skies at last, now just have to wait for Jupiter to clear the walls of the observatory...

Bird

iceman (Mike) · #9 24-07-2009, 06:08 AM

The Bird Strike will be crossing the CM at about 1am AEST tonight/tomorrow morning.

The weather forecast is looking clear - hopefully i'll finally be able to get my first image of it.

coco smoko (Stephen) · #10 24-07-2009, 09:17 AM

Thanks all!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rat156 · #11 24-07-2009, 02:00 PM

Yep, used the front page timings this morning.

I was up imaging until about 11pm, when my giude star lost brightness, i.e. it got cloudy. As this wasn't supposed to happen I packed up and didn't set the alarm for 4am as I was planning to do.

Anyway, at 3.57am I woke up, for no reason I can think of, but once I checked the time I decided to get up and have a look anyway. I was rewarded with the sight of the brid strike coming around the limb of the planet. Seeing was OK, so I have several avi's to process tonight. Imaged until abour 5.30, then got too cold and piked it, turned the electric blanket on and tried to get some more sleep.

Only thing was I was obviously a bit excited, so didn't get much sleep anyway. Today is dragging a bit, might have to go home early!

Also saw a nice meteor virtually at Zenith just after I got outside.

Did I mention how much I love having a permanent setup and an observatory?

Cheers
Stuart

[1ponders] (Paul) · #12 24-07-2009, 09:34 PM

Moved from Solar System Images forum to General Chat forum as there are no images in this thread.