# Where are the Earth-based pix of the LCROSS impact?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-earth-based-pix-of-the-lcross-impact/513190>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 9, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-earth-based-pix-of-the-lcross-impact/513190 "2009-10-09T14:38:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-earth-based-pix-of-the-lcross-impact/513190/1 "2009-10-09T14:38:43Z")

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I must be Googling the wrong terms. Has anyone found any “back-yard” astronomy pictures of the plume from the impact? Where are they?

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**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-earth-based-pix-of-the-lcross-impact/513190/2 "2009-10-09T15:14:51Z")

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Apparently, there just wasn’t [much to be seen](http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/63766222.html).

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**Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-earth-based-pix-of-the-lcross-impact/513190/3 "2009-10-09T15:19:14Z")

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Thanks. Wow - Keck, Palomar, all the big telescopes saw nada? All the backyard astronomers saw nada? The camera on board saw nada? For such a rousing success, this seems extremely anti-climactic with no visual data.

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**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-earth-based-pix-of-the-lcross-impact/513190/4 "2009-10-09T17:06:41Z")

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As Bart would have said it, “It was craptacular.”

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-earth-based-pix-of-the-lcross-impact/513190/5 "2009-10-09T17:30:45Z")

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Almost Kohoutek-like in its brilliance.

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**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-earth-based-pix-of-the-lcross-impact/513190/6 "2009-10-10T17:41:35Z")

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You’ve probably seen this by now, but here are [a few bright pixels](http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html) in the mid-IR range.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 10, 2009, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-are-the-earth-based-pix-of-the-lcross-impact/513190/7 "2009-10-10T23:15:39Z")

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When I told Pepper Mill about this, her response was:

“Where’s the KaBoom? There was supposed to be a Moon-Brightening KABOOM!”