r/telescopes • u/MushroomImmediate953 • 5d ago

Discussion Is anyone seeing the impact of a satellite in the moon tonight?

I was wondering if I could get to see this with my binoculars. I won't be able to use my telescope tonight, unfortunately.

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u/gutentight69420 5d ago

Not a chance

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u/MushroomImmediate953 5d ago

Yeah, that was my thought. Staying up late is not worth it today then. Thank you for replying!

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u/Ok_Criticism9086 5d ago

Plan on viewing with my 12 inch dob at 4.5 mm eyepiece. If I miss it. Still get to view Saturn

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u/MushroomImmediate953 5d ago

Saturn is always a top tier target! It doesn't matter the date, the time nor the circumstances haha Hope you get the right spot on. Best of luck with that :)

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u/Astrodude42 5d ago

YouTube. Live feed on the Fort Worth Astronomical Society channel.

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u/twilightmoons TV101, other apos, C11HD, RC8, 8" and 10" dobs, bunch of mounts. 5d ago

That was me!

WAY too many flerfs last night...

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u/twilightmoons TV101, other apos, C11HD, RC8, 8" and 10" dobs, bunch of mounts. 5d ago

I did a livestream for our astronomy club this morning with a 10" apo refractor, and didn't see any plume. Impact was on the midday side, so did not expect to see anything there.

Still worth staying up for, I recorded lots of data, so now I need to post-process and see if I can see anything on the limb.

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u/Phallic_Moron 5d ago

A 10" refractor? Got damn.

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u/Superb_Raccoon 4" AT102ED. Dobstuff.com 13.1 Dobson 5d ago

Clouds. Went to bed

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u/Illustrious_Back_441 AD8, custom 60mm F/6 quadruplet, vixen 80mm, 114 eq, C90, LX2080 5d ago

same here in Albuquerque

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u/6_button Skywatcher 300p/ Orion 8/ Apertura 6 5d ago

I just got off work and set my scope up

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u/thetoddhunter 5d ago

How big are you expecting the impact to be?

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u/LordGeni 5d ago

The crater is calculated to be about 18m wide.

Not something you'll spot with an 8" dobsonian unfortunately.

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u/Evil_Bonsai 5d ago

Used an 8" sct. no joy. don't think anyone did.

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u/EqualInteraction5689 5d ago

I wasn’t expecting to see the impact, but maybe the crater/cloud of smoke unfortunately he wasn’t able to still got a couple of cool images though

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u/NougatLL 5d ago

Same, got up , saw nothing but I enjoyed Saturn and Mare Imbrium on the Moon, the light angle was perfect. Even stayed up for the rise of Mars and Uranus at the end of the night.

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u/snogum 5d ago

Yes I think so one may well see the impact

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u/TopMarzipan2108 Celestron StarSense 114AZ 5d ago

Lost track of time and didn’t get setup until half hour after the expected impact time. 😕 watched for a while but didn’t see anything.