Goodbye LCROSS

Well....I write this a little under two hours since LCROSS hit the crater Cabeus on the lunar south pole and although I wasn't able to look at the moon direct, being daylight here in the UK, I did follow the impact live via NASA TV

Initially it doesn't look like Centaur kicked up too much of a plume and I certainly could not see any bright light in the Cabeus crater when Centaur hit. Data is still coming in from both the impacts of Centaur and LCROSS and we will bring these to you as soon as NASA releases the information

In the meantime I hope you enjoy the below image, courtesy of NASA, of the crater Cabeus as viewed in the last minute of LCROSS' life

Goodbye LCROSS....thanks for an exciting day

LCROSS to hit the moon!

Todays the day that Centaur and LCROSS will impact in the caretr Cabeus on the lunar south pole

Unfortunatley its daytime here in the UK but you can watch all the exciting events live on NASA TV which is streamed here http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Romsey Astronomical Society gets new telescope!

September 2009:

Romsey Astronomical Society have now taken loan of a 12" S/C LX200 that has been kindly lent to the society by a local benefactor. The scope has already been housed in its own run off roof observatory and has already been put to work on an intensive project of variable star observations, including Mira, R CrB, GCAS and numerous other types of variables. The scope is also giving splendid views of the moon and members have been very content with sketching the landscape that has been presented in recent weeks. Deep sky is also proving interesting and members have reported at least dropping to magnitude 14.5 from Romsey. The Blue Snowball appears to be a favourite amongst members.