9P Tempel 1 photo & Nasa's Deep Impact MissionPosted By John Chumack |
Hi All,
As part of the Nasa's Deep Impact Mission,
I'm on their STSP or Small Telescope Science Program in collaboration with the University of Maryland & JPL, I will be providing them comet images along with astrometric/photometric data for monitoring 9P's coma & dust production.
We will be monitoring this comet right through scheduled impact on the 4th of July 2005.
Its currently about 17.8 magnitude, but will brighten to about 10.5 magnitude by next July, at which time the Deep Impact Probe will smack right into the comet, they expect a brightness increase of about 5 magnitudes, bringing the comet to about 5th magnitude in a matter of seconds to minutes.
for more details on Deep Imapct go to: http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/
My image of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 is below...............stay tuned!
Best Regards,
John Chumack
The Chumack Observatories
MPC#838 Dayton Research Station
www.galacticimages.com
As part of the Nasa's Deep Impact Mission,
I'm on their STSP or Small Telescope Science Program in collaboration with the University of Maryland & JPL, I will be providing them comet images along with astrometric/photometric data for monitoring 9P's coma & dust production.
We will be monitoring this comet right through scheduled impact on the 4th of July 2005.
Its currently about 17.8 magnitude, but will brighten to about 10.5 magnitude by next July, at which time the Deep Impact Probe will smack right into the comet, they expect a brightness increase of about 5 magnitudes, bringing the comet to about 5th magnitude in a matter of seconds to minutes.
for more details on Deep Imapct go to: http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/
My image of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 is below...............stay tuned!
Best Regards,
John Chumack
The Chumack Observatories
MPC#838 Dayton Research Station
www.galacticimages.com