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picture - Released 07/09/2006 10:27 am - Copyright Canada-
France-Hawaii Telescope / 2006 This wide-angle animation is
built with images taken by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope
(CFHT) on the Mauna Kea volcano at Hawaii on 3 September 2006,
and shows the flash generated by the SMART-1 impact on the Moon.
The observations were made with the WIRCam wide-field infrared
camera, featuring a 10-second exposure time. As the impact was
on the South-East of the Moon, the South-East area of the Moon
was placed on the North-West corner of the North-West detector.
Only a tiny fraction of the whole field really used to look at
the impact. As the telescope tracks the Moon, it is possible to
see the stars moving from one exposure to the next, and then
disappearing behind the Earthshine-lit Moon crescent. The
extreme upper right is saturated by the Sun as the telescope
started looking at the illuminate