Gently extracted from the mind of Tony Beresford; >At 11:38 25/08/02, you wrote: >>Hi All, >> >>I've been visiting Mr. Josef Huber's website on his observations of the ISS. >>I'm interested in trying out those type of observations where the spaceframe >>can be observed, not just the reflected light. I'm going to be obtaining >>20x80 super giant astronomy binoculars to advance my observations a bit, >>amongst my other astronomy interests.. I'm interested to know if anyone else >>has these high power binoculars and what their results were if they observed >>MIR [ when it was still up there. ] and the ISS. Maybe we can compare >>results...Also, has anyone done this with the Meade ETX telescope series??? >Bob, I dont think the 20x80 binos will have enough magnification >to show enough detail. I once got a hint of structure with a pair of 110x20 binoculars. They are Soviet (nee German) warship binoculars and are sold by http://www.sovietski.com . >If you look closely at the specs, I think you will find ETX telescopes cant >slew fast enough to track close passes of the ISS and other objects in >similar or lower orbits. I dont know whether you can use such telescopes >purely manually. Tony Beresford -ash for assistance dial MYCROFTXXX ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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