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Where will other astronomy nuts be watching for news of the Huygens touchdown tomorrow?

Will people be watching the NASA TV web feed with it's 15 hours of special coverage? (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/)

Will people be watching the ESA Huygens website(http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html) or the NASA Cassini-Huygens website(http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm)? (I find the NASA site seems to be more up-to-date)

Will people be posting here? Another astronomy board or news group?

space.com? Yahoo astronomy chat? slashdot?

Of course, I trust all the best pics will turn up on APOD eventually, but I'm too impatient. I'm betting tomorrows APOD will instead be the winner of the planetary society's art contest: http://www.planetary.org/saturn/artcontest_en.html

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Cassini-Huygens/index.html
THIS IS WHERE I WILL BE LOOKING

http://esa.capcave.com/esa/cassinihuygens/
THIS SITE WILL CARRY MPEG FILES OF THE EVENT

with just a hour prior to landing, I have 404 on every WMV "low" versions.

makc wrote:with just a hour prior to landing, I have 404 on every WMV "low" versions.

On the ESA control room webcam? I got a "server not found"

NASA TV is working fine for me. Don't get too excited though, there won't be any pictures for at least a couple of hours yet.

This chick: http://planetary.org/news/2005/huygens_blog.html is also posting info while its fresh, but she's not writing much.

So far: Green Bank has picked up Huygens' carrier signal. This indicates Huygens has already entered the atmosphere and ejected its heat sheild. There's not nearly as much that can go wrong now.

Boldra

pictures will be here soon.


this is so AWSOME!!!

For the record, none of the links I found were much good, the best solution turned out to be IRC. I was very disappointed that NASA had the pictures on its website before ESA, and that neither website handled the load properly.

In the end, the best place to get the new pictures turned out to be [url]irc://freenode/space[/url]. The people on the irc channel got hold of the raw DISR images and had them displayed and had amateur analysis long before ESA had fixed its website. There's collection of some of the processed and raw pictures at http://anthony.liekens.net/index.php/Main/Huygens

Someone needs to tell ESAs webmaster about bittorrent before they have another PR event.

Boldra

thanks, the second link was great.

some direct links:
http://planetary.org/news/2005/images/h ... norama.jpg
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/images/cas ... cture3.jpg
http://anthony.liekens.net/titan/titan_panorama.jpg
http://anthony.liekens.net/titan/mosaic2.jpg

haven't seen there are raw images, but, they say "people on irc had played with raw images", while it looks like they didn't... all that aliasing and noise and blur... I'd say they caould be 50% better (look, for example, how no-good is ESA's jpeg compared to Anthony's panorama), but that's not a limit.