Indian probe lands safely near Moon’s South Pole

[Bill Barton]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-66590445

[Grant Privett]

Nice achievement and the probe was quite easy to spot on the way out, though it was fun the night it was moving at 3 arcsecs/sec

The image attached shows dozens of short exposures overlaid and processed to record the highest value for each pixel.

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[Dr Paul Leyland]

Nice. Is this uploaded to the Gallery?

[Grant Privett]

No, I meant to rerun it leaving out every second frame to show the progress, but have never found the time. I have a plot of mag versus time somewhere too but that merely tells you that it was stable and not rotating fast. Though it did tell me it would be mag 29 at 1AU. 🙂

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