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If you can see your home region in this image, you can watch the attack on the Moon with your own telescope:
NASA says you'll need a 'scope of at least 10-inch diameter to see the event. Smaller instruments don't have enough light-gathering power to show the impact flash as well as debris and possibly water vapor rising into the sunlight above the Cabeus-A crater's rim. The rocket hits first, throwing up a 5-mile-high cloud that the LCROSS spaceship flies through, using infrared spectrometers and video cameras to determine how much water is on the Moon. Here's where to look:
Click the image to see impact-site details (target crater is Cabeus-A).
However, everyone can view the event in super-resolution by going to the NASA TV site (or watching NASA TV, of course) starting 15 minutes before the first crash.
Click the image for more impact-observing tips.
Bonus: On August 17, LCROSS took this shot of the crescent Earth from 323,000 miles out, 547,000 miles from the Moon:
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Now there's something you don't see every day. Don't miss it!
Chris
