LCROSS Lunar Impact in 3 days 19 hours and 54 minutes (and a few seconds). I have begun imaging the targeted impact area, Cabeus Crater, with the .61m telescope (see first image attached). Hopefully we'll be able to capture some of the action, which will happen around 5:30am local time (4:30 PDT). The Moon will be perfectly placed - almost directly overhead.

LB-0001 is now offline for maintenance of the Apogee Alta U42 (new and improved cooling unit being installed). I thought I'd take advantage of the down time to get the telescope geared up for the LCROSS impact event. We are working on possibly streaming the video from LB-0001 to our UStream channel, so stay tuned for updates on this exciting news. Updates will be in the LightBuckets Forums.