2025/05/30 - Lunar Impact

[ebon pawn]

Lunar Impact on Earth Shine. Detected yesterday around 08:11 PM UTC, lasted ~0.8s. SW 5" f/7, ASI183MM Pro, ZWO L at 900mm, 2.2"/px.

[sharp vault]

Nerd worthy?

[ebon pawn]

i was (mini)nerd before

[sharp vault]

Ohhhhhh

[ebon pawn]

but ye mods hand the nerd role

[oak bough]

insane

[south ferry]

How do you even notice such a thing?! Looks like a very easily missable event

[ebon pawn]

Difference between maximum and average stacking

[storm sage]

APOD

[ebon pawn]

no way this gets APOD

my G3 daylight didn't got it so not this

[untold garnet]

Is this your alt?

[ebon pawn]

no main

[untold garnet]

Where is your role?

[ebon pawn]

gone

[untold garnet]

Why?

[ebon pawn]

i dunno

when you live a server the roles disappear

[untold garnet]

Oh, I see

[ebon pawn]

but i'm sure even with this i won't get nerd for some unknown reason

[untold garnet]

I think u deserve mininerd

[ebon pawn]

not meganerd

[untold garnet]

@dusty hinge could you give him mininerd

[storm sage]

This would easly get APOD

[ebon pawn]

well i will try

[untold garnet]

Did you try to get an impact? Or was it a coincidence

[ebon pawn]

Nah coincidence

It's so rare that going for one is worthless

[untold garnet]

Cool

[craggy ginkgo]

Hof?

[untold garnet]

Nah

[wooden token]

your punishment for leaving

jk

great spot!

[mystic sail]

What. What the actuall fu

[mystic sail]

@ebon pawn can u send the raw video?

[ebon pawn]

It's not a video just fits file but yes

[sharp vault]

You got reminineerded

[weary falcon]

NO WAY! insane! how small would the crater be? like a couple meters or smth like 100?

[ebon pawn]

I don't know and will not run the simulations to know the answer.

[ebon pawn]

Nah, could be if my username was tw_astro

[weary falcon]

can u pls share how many pixels was the fireball at its peak? ill try to calculate it

[ebon pawn]

There's a high probability that what you see is not the 'fireball' but rather a simple scattered light emission.