DART - OPTiK

Edinburgh · Turkana · Atacama 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇰🇪🇨🇱 Portable telescope heading to Northern Kenya to observe NASA’s DART mission ☄️

[DART - OPTiK @DartOptik]

Other papers released today can be found here:
Daly et al. https://t.co/CXRcBMmFke
Cheng et al. https://t.co/P7CxIVl0ld
Happy reading! 🪨 (4/4)

[DART - OPTiK @DartOptik]

It’s #DARTmission paper release day! ☄️ See below to see papers about the DART mission from scientists across the globe - and some that our team were involved in 🌍 (1/4)🧵

[DART - OPTiK @DartOptik]

Our Edinburgh team were also involved in writing “Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos” Li et al. 📄: https://t.co/0wWcdnGKp3 (3/4)

[TURKANA BASIN INSTITUTE @turkanabasin]

Rashid Nafwa and @okothvincent001 from @AstroTU_Kenya have been doing Astronomy research in #Ileret for 2 months as part of the @DartOptik project. Read all about their work here!
https://t.co/ScESkfnkBA

[DART - OPTiK @DartOptik]

Have a read what Rashid and Vincent, two students from the @AstroTU_Kenya, have been up to whilst they've been in @turkanabasin Ileret for the past couple of months in TBI's new blog post: https://t.co/QB2SlcCt0X 🔭☄️

[DART - OPTiK @DartOptik]

Our team at the @ESO 1.54m Danish telescope (part of @H2020Neorocks) has been observing the effect of the #DARTMission post-impact. Their contributions have helped to show a 32 min reduction in Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos! 👏🏼☄️🔭

[NASA Space Alerts @NASASpaceAlerts]

CONFIRMED: Analysis of data obtained over the past 2 weeks by the #DARTMission team shows impact with Dimorphos has successfully altered the asteroid’s orbit by 32 minutes - marking the 1st time humans have changed the orbit of a celestial object in space! https://t.co/MjmUAFwVSO

[Colin Snodgrass @colinsnodgrass]

From today's @NASA briefing about #DARTMission, a nice demonstration of how we measure the effect of the impact using telescopes - including @PhysAstroEd's contribution through observations at the @ESO 1.54m Danish telescope (part of @H2020Neorocks!)

[DART - OPTiK @DartOptik]

Another evening, we got members from the community over to @turkanabasin to allow them to look through the telescope too! The funding has also allowed for social media channels, and other forms of communications to be maintained during the project ☄️

[DART - OPTiK @DartOptik]

Through funding from the @royalsociety, we were able to fund an intern to help us with the communications and outreach parts of the #DARTOPTiK project. We visited the local school in Ileret, and were able to get the kids to come and look through the telescope at TBI 🔭

[DART - OPTiK @DartOptik]

They also ran an outreach session with Daraja academy, a local school in the area where the students were able to look through the telescope and learn about the sky 🔭✨ @TravelTelescope

[DART - OPTiK @DartOptik]

Susan and Chu over at the @TravelTelescope have also been helping with some observations of the #DARTMission in Kenya, using their Unistellar eVscope. Here is the Didymos system at time of impact, taken from Naibor, Laikipia County 🇰🇪

[Solar System Exploration 🛰 @fromspacecraft]

Observatorios terrestres siguen al sistema de #Didymos luego del choque de #DART contra su luna #Dimorphos. Se ha visto el desarrollo de una cola extensa con material procedente del impacto.

(📸 @comets77/ @CFHTelescope / @DartOptik) #NASA #DARTMission

[AkaSci 📡 @akaschs]

Asteroid Didymos/Dimorphos grow a tail 🦕

Some of the dust and debris ejected from Dimorphos after collision with #DARTMission has coalesced into a long tail, as seen in these image taken by @LICIACube shortly after impact and by ground telescopes the day after the impact.
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[AstroKenya @AstroKenya]

It’s simply amazing that a telescope 🔭 is able to see this. Well done!

[DART - OPTiK @DartOptik]

Our team in Paranal have been busy observing the aftermath of the #DARTMission impact on Monday night! Images are of the Didymos system, (1) about 4hrs after impact and (2) taken the next night on the MUSE instrument with an image scale of about 3000kms at Didymos🔭☄️

[DART - OPTiK @DartOptik]

@talafha_mohamma it's a 0.4m telescope we have in Kenya 🔭

[DART - OPTiK @DartOptik]

Here is the very moment of the #DARTMission impact, seen from our telescope in Kenya #DARTOPTiK 🇰🇪🔭

[LICIACube @LICIACube]

Here are the first images taken by #LICIACube of #DARTmission impact on asteroid #Dimorphos.
Now weeks and months of hard work are now starting for scientists and technicians involved in this mission, so stay tuned because we will have a lot to tell!

[Colin Snodgrass @colinsnodgrass]

@elakdawalla @esa @SAAO @TelescopeLiveHQ @VirtualTelescop @Unistellar Our little @DartOptik telescope in Kenya also captured the moment of impact: https://t.co/GEauPkQwQH