Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:20:24 -0700
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Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: On the possibility of imaging AO-40
At 04:56 AM 10/16/2009, Alan P. Biddle wrote:
Getting an image is clearly
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To: k...@arrl.net; amsat-bb@amsat.org
Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: On the possibility of imaging AO-40 with earth
boundtelescopes...
Please see Page 19 of the May-June 2008 issue of The AMSAT Journal.
Patrick Seitzer, WA4DSR, provided a photo of AO-40 taken by the University
of Michigan's Curtis
At 04:56 AM 10/16/2009, Alan P. Biddle wrote:
Getting an image is clearly possible, but only if you can get a certain
agency known by its initials to do it.
I offer a different opinion. We know how large the primary mirror
(optical aperture) of these spy satellites are, because we know how
big
Please see Page 19 of the May-June 2008 issue of The AMSAT Journal.
Patrick Seitzer, WA4DSR, provided a photo of AO-40 taken by the University of
Michigan's Curtis-Schmidt Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory
in Chile. Following is information from a University of Michigan Web
This is interesting; I've learned stuff because of this.
Not that it's practical, but what could Hubble see? The first question
would be can it be positioned to stare down, and then how well
would it see something that close and fast?
--STeve Andre'
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On Thursday 15 October 2009
