Amateurs and the deep impact mission
Deep Impact scientists are recruiting amateur CCD imagers to complement professional observations of Comet Tempel 1, due to be hit by a NASA projectile in July. The Small Telescope Science Program is the brainchild of Gary Emerson, and avid amateur astronomer and an engineer at Ball Aerospace &...
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Published in | Sky and telescope Vol. 109; no. 6; pp. 70 - 71 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Magazine Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Cambridge
AAS Sky Publishing, LLC
01.06.2005
F & W Publications, Inc |
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Online Access | Get full text |
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Summary: | Deep Impact scientists are recruiting amateur CCD imagers to complement professional observations of Comet Tempel 1, due to be hit by a NASA projectile in July. The Small Telescope Science Program is the brainchild of Gary Emerson, and avid amateur astronomer and an engineer at Ball Aerospace & Technology Corporation, which built the Deep Impact spacecraft. Warner and Redfern details their planning of surveillance of the comet before, during, and after Deep Impact's collision. |
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ISSN: | 0037-6604 |