Phil Plait points out C. Veillet at CFHT also picked up the expanding dust cloud from the SMART-1 impact by subtracting the existing image of the moon against post-impact images. Animation here.
Even better: a wide-field video of the crash.
Full details at http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/News/Smart1/, from Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope / 2006.
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