Tweedledee Posted December 31, 2018 Share Posted December 31, 2018 New Horizons should reach Ultima Thule at about 5.30am on new years day, so sometime later tomorrow we should get some exciting views. Brian May is releasing his own tribute to the spacecraft in the form of a single and video at about the same time as the rendezvous. I'll certainly be giving that a play. BAZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bino-viewer Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 I’m looking forward to seeing some imagery. The end of a fascinating mission. I often wonder with this object being so far out, how effective the sun is at illuminating it ? I think New Horizons will need to crank the ISO up a bit.... maybe iso 6400 should do the trick ! ? BAZ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAZ Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 NH is going like bee's wings as well, so this is likely to be a snapshot. But look at the imagery that they got passing Pluto and Charon doing that speed. Apparently it's like trying to take a photo of a lamp post from a car going 40mph. Not too mention how far away it is and how good the data coming back will be. Just heard on the news it's going to take about twenty months to download, so they are probably still running Windows 2000. ? Don't you just love the name too, Ultima Thule. +RonC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Graham Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 Its going to be very embarrassing if they discover that someone left the dust cap on the camera ? Tweedledee 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweedledee Posted January 1, 2019 Author Share Posted January 1, 2019 4 minutes ago, Graham said: Its going to be very embarrassing if they discover that someone left the dust cap on the camera ? The big question then would be who, or what, replaced the dust cap after Pluto! ? +Graham 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Graham Posted January 1, 2019 Share Posted January 1, 2019 That would be a good point. ? the answer is out there ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Bino-viewer Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 From what i've seen so far, it looks somewhat like our old friend Comet 67P (Churyumov /Garasimenko) A big bit and a little bit...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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