should I stay awake long enough to watch the Ultima Thule flyby?

If NASA will be showing photographs from the spacecraft as it flies past 'Ultima Thule' tonight I would be interested in watching. However, I do not wish to watch if all I'm going to see are talking heads, computer simulations, etc. How soon will photographs be released from the period of close approach?

On Monday, 31 December 2018 13:14:58 UTC-5, wrote:
If NASA will be showing photographs from the spacecraft as it flies past 'Ultima Thule' tonight I would be interested in watching. However, I do not wish to watch if all I'm going to see are talking heads, computer simulations, etc. How soon will photographs be released from the period of close approach?

Takes a day or two usually. It takes 6 hours for the radio signal to reach Earth.

On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 10:14:54 -0800 (PST), wrote:

If NASA will be showing photographs from the spacecraft as it flies past 'Ultima Thule' tonight I would be interested in watching. However, I do not wish to watch if all I'm going to see are talking heads, computer simulations, etc. How soon will photographs be released from the period of close approach?

The photographs will take up to two years to download. The probe is so
far away it only transmits at a few k per second so nothing can be in
real time.

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On Monday, December 31, 2018 at 10:14:58 AM UTC-8, wrote:
If NASA will be showing photographs from the spacecraft as it flies past 'Ultima Thule' tonight I would be interested in watching. However, I do not wish to watch if all I'm going to see are talking heads, computer simulations, etc. How soon will photographs be released from the period of close approach?

All you gonna see is a chunk of dirty ice at best!
How boring is that?
I rather party tonight!
Happy New Year!

On Monday, December 31, 2018 at 1:14:58 PM UTC-5, wrote:
If NASA will be showing photographs from the spacecraft as it flies past 'Ultima Thule' tonight I would be interested in watching. However, I do not wish to watch if all I'm going to see are talking heads, computer simulations, etc. How soon will photographs be released from the period of close approach?

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Data from the flyby won't arrive until mid-morning Jan 1st.

(Annoyed that tickets to NYE events start at about $100 around here, so maybe I'll watch this NASA show instead.)

On 31/12/2018 18:14, wrote:
If NASA will be showing photographs from the spacecraft as it flies
past 'Ultima Thule' tonight I would be interested in watching.
However, I do not wish to watch if all I'm going to see are talking
heads, computer simulations, etc. How soon will photographs be
released from the period of close approach?

Light travel time alone is about 6 hours and then they will need to send
an image on a downlink that runs at 1000bps. So a 2Mpixel snapshot at
100bytes/second will optimisitically take about 20000s = 6 hours to
arrive. They can't start sending until it has completed the flyby since
its high gain antenna must be pointed back at the Earth.

There might be a first snapshot very late today or early tomorrow with a
bit of luck. It will be interesting to see what it looks like.

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Martin Brown

On Monday, December 31, 2018 at 1:14:58 PM UTC-5, wrote:
If NASA will be showing photographs from the spacecraft as it flies past 'Ultima Thule' tonight I would be interested in watching. However, I do not wish to watch if all I'm going to see are talking heads, computer simulations, etc. How soon will photographs be released from the period of close approach?

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Verge informs us, pics tomorrow,

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/1/18...mation-success