(I'm starting a new thread for this so people can find it easily.)

Space.com has an extensive list of links for tapping into NASA TV or other sources for live coverage of the impact:

http://space.com/scienceastronomy/05...mpact_web.html

They include these (plus I've added a few more):

Kitt Peak:
http://www.noao.edu/news/deep-impact/

Bathurst, Australia:
http://black-hole-net.mit.csu.edu.au...deepimpact.asp

Keck from Mauna Kea:
http://astroday.net/DIH-Tempel.html

Vanderbilt University coverage:
http://www.sonicfoundry.com/

Carl Sagan Observatory in Mexico (Espanol):
http://cosmos.astro.uson.mx/Ciencia/...ia/di/live.htm

NASA TV via the Internet:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/
http://www.unitedspacealliance.com/live/nasatv.htm
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/realdata/ksclive/index.html
http://www.cotf.edu/ntv/main.html
http://www.chron.com/content/interactive/space/vdo/

If anyone has any more, feel free to add them.

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No web links, but NASA (Satellite) will be viewing the historical event. I've tuned it in now, and there is not much going on...

6PM & 10PM: ISS Mission Coverage

Midnight: Gallery/History - Deep Impact coverage.

NASA has put up Javascript:

Image Viewer -- Near Real-Time Images From Deep Impact

on the Deep Impact Mission Home Page

Currently it shows an image, or a mosaic of 4, from the Impactor targeting camera, as well as an archive of about a dozen images. It doesn't look like much yet, but I'm sure the show will get better.

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Erm, the images from the "near-live" feed just seem to be showing static. Temporary, I hope. :-?

Example

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Wow. Good closeup pictures of the rings of Saturn!

It was working better earlier, as the archive shows. The Impactor transmits its images to the Flyby, which then relays them to Earth, so there are at least 2 chances for noise to be added.

Hopefully, on board the impactor, used for targeting, they are clearer, and, again a hope, by the time they get interesting the links will be more sound.

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Still, it's kind of worrying that we're not getting pictures. I hope that it's a minor problem.

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Oh, I just noticed that lately, those are Flyby images -- so, that eliminates Impactor-Flyby transmission as a noise source for those.

Images do seem to keep coming though, so they must be being captured and transmitted. Maybe the DSN receiver is in a bad spot right now.

Oops. Just saw a new Impactor image, 234 I think, and it looks fine. Temple 1 is quite visible. Number 219 seems to be the most recent noisy image. (I wish the software showed names better, so we could talk about images, like the MER raw images.)

Edit: 220-233 have some Flyby images and they look good, too.

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The latest image from the impactor looks better now .

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That's a lot better.

No need to worry, remain calm!

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I am so mad I could spit tektites...

NASA chose this weekend to switch transponders and modes for satellite TV. Naturally, this is where the cable tuble system for The Major Midwestern Metropolitan College Of Higher Knowledge gets its NASA feed. There's no one on duty in the office that handles the satellite feeds, so channel 44 is just a BSOD.

Lucky I got the online feed...

...woulda been nice to see it on the big TV, though...fudge...

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Starting right now on NASA TV.

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Taking it a step further, if anyone wants to hang out with the rest of we avid geeks (primarily from JREF at the moment) watching the live coverage, the Bad Astronomy Chat room is open and shall be for the duration. Details here, software download here.

Alright, you got me. Let me download the thing.

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Here we go

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Has the new feed started again?

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The press conference should get underway in about a half hour.

Just switched to the "momentarily" graphic.

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I posted this on the other thread, but this girl is there and she's explaining the delay--you have to keep refreshing b/c she keeps typing! She's got nice little tidbits of info.

http://planetary.org/blog/20050703.htm

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Press conference in session now.

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