Just saw this over the wire...

Mar 16, 2004 08:36

I get to look at Sedna ( Read more... )

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aiglet March 16 2004, 05:44:21 UTC
Oh, that's really cool!

I hope it goes through, you sound really excited.

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matociquala March 16 2004, 05:47:33 UTC
I'm so totally chuffed for you!

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cpip March 16 2004, 06:19:25 UTC
Bring 'er about, Hubble. If there's a moon to be found, I know you'll find it.

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fuse_sat March 16 2004, 06:56:23 UTC
Jeez, fella, keep up with your own schedule, will ya? The Director's discretionary time got approved on Sunday and you're go for observation. I'd have thought you'd have the command load by now.

Anyhow, bon chance! Grab some good images for us. I might need one as a reference image, in case somebody decides to see if there's any far UV reflection spectrum to be seen coming off that ice ball.

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hubbletelescope March 16 2004, 07:16:57 UTC
Hmmm, maybe I'll be getting the upload later today or tomorrow, I'm not seeing it in my banks at this moment. I was just browsing around the NASA website while doing an exposure today, and stumbled across the news. I look forward to seeing what the actual command load will be and what the results are.

Shame I can't leak the results before any official press releases, but I'll see if I can't bend the rules. No promises.

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hubbletelescope March 16 2004, 07:19:35 UTC
Whee! Click click click. Looks like I spoke too soon, the pictures have now been taken, and are being analyzed on the ground I understand. Turns out it was part of my load yesterday. Wow, I didn't even realize what I was looking at!

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fuse_sat March 16 2004, 07:25:56 UTC
It's not much to see, according to Spitzer. Just a little speck way out there at 120 AU. I hope you got some good NIC images.

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Excellent! redbird March 16 2004, 12:16:03 UTC
You got a nice long article in Newsday today, all about how you were doing neat things and surprising the astronomers with what's in your ultra-deep field. Apparently they think you might have photographed either an Oort cloud object or a brown or white dwarf, along with all the far distant stuff. And there are fewer supernovae than expected, but some dim stars that should be bright, which might be a pre-supernova phase.

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