[meteorite-list] Subaru Telescope Observes Comet Impact

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.subaru.naoj.org/Pressrelease/2005/07/DI/index.html

Subaru Telescope
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
Hilo, Hawaii
July 4, 2005

Deep Impact News Flash
[http://www.subaru.naoj.org/Pressrelease/2005/07/DI/index.html]

NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has collided with the comet Tempel 1. The 
following movie and images are taken by NHK's HDTV camera and the Cooled 
Mid-Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (COMICS) on the Subaru telescope 
(for more information, see this page). The data taken by COMICS has been 
made publicly available for astronomers all over the world through this 
page.

Impact Movie and Image from HDTV

Data process ongoing.

Images from COMICS

Pre-impact:
Friday, July 1, 8:13 p.m. HST (false color)
http://www.subaru.naoj.org/Pressrelease/2005/07/DI/comics20050701.jpg 
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Post-impact:
Sunday, July 3, 9:50 p.m. HST (false color)
http://www.subaru.naoj.org/Pressrelease/2005/07/DI/comics20050703.jpg 
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