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Struggling here still. This page took about 40s to load.

All good so far. Wish ULA could afford webcams though! ?

6 hours ago, Ibbo! said:

I thnk its the same one as the guy in Nigeria that has 1M to give away

I’m not falling for that again ?

Somebody told me there was a prize for this. Where do I put my address for the cheque? ? 

I was at the AS monthly talk so missed this. Nice to see 'block 5' did it's job successfully though.

Astonishing image. What a great use of the palette. 

I think a massive thumbs up, the main reason for me being all of the structure you've captured, and your treatment of it gives it so much depth, it feels like I'm wearing 3d specs!

Mission accomplished. Time to look at some planets. 

That's no good, I'm busy on Wednesday. Tell them to change it to tomorrow!

23 hours ago, Duke2k said:

Hi all

I have been trying to simulate lunar shadows using elevation data but all I get is the terminator in black. How do you add contour lines and elevation data and also where do you find the files?

I am using windows 8.1

A group of us are hoping to image the Lunar X next week but we are stuck.

Thanks

This page shows you how to do simulations. But be quick, as demo performer says, the site is being dropped soon. 

Fabulous collection of images. I think I might sell the house!

Cracking images, love the reflections.

1 minute ago, Peter Drew said:

"Dust bunny".    

Didn't know bunnies could fly!

That's a beast Mr Drew. Proper telescope, I love it.

4 hours ago, Stub Mandrel said:

They flip, re-ignite the motor and fly back where they came.

As seen here in this uninterrupted footage from somebody on the ground with an LX200 and some nice tracking software. It's an incredible feat. 

The little detail (from the press conference) that stood out for me was how they had to land them not quite simultaneously to avoid confusing the radar.

Centre core hit the water at 300mph after not having enough propellant to slow descent. 

Looks like it’s about to start

Just now, SilverAstro said:

I'm failing to connect to n2yo

but on the seesat-l  mailing list DrMarco Langbroek has posted this estimated ground track

https://twitter.com/Marco_Langbroek/status/961013732238331904

It's very slow but it does load.

orbit tracking link

http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=43205

Turns out the press conference hasn't actually happened yet. Earliest will be 23:45 GMT. Streamed here

3 minutes ago, SilverAstro said:

and the BBC news channel has just shown a clip of 'it' < in the story line, landing back on ship  

That was animated footage by the look of it. (edit - Just noticed it actually says animation)

They also have factual errors "ignited all 27 of its engines at once" 

No it didn't
 

Several journos reporting reporting on twitter the centre core didn't make it. Apparently there was a press conference at approx 6pm EST - 23:00 GMT.

I'm sure there will be videos and explanations later.

Still, an amazing achievement.

The SpaceX subreddit has some good stuff.

1 minute ago, Stu said:

I suppose if it wiped out the comms from the drone ship then they might not have images to show yet?

That's what I mean, they'll have had a fireball to deal with potentially, then possibly a search for the video gear and then waiting to get it back to land. The drone ship was about 300km down range I believe.

1 minute ago, SilverAstro said:

So has this car got an electric ion thruster for max speed transfer to Mars,

or will it be ballistic, hohmann transfer, or  other ? we need to know these details

all I see so far is plans for two apogee boosts (one executed already, I think ? )

I thort I read Hohmann transfer somewhere

7 minutes ago, SilverAstro said:

Nope, new advertising slogan "All the way to Mars on one charge " 

I'll be saddened if they know the centre core is lost and are not yet telling us, that would be too like memories of the Soviet era

They'll tell us I'm sure, they'll probably wait until recovery of video from the drone ship.

Meanwhile I'm happy to look at views like this for a while