Re: Observations of NEAR
Jay Respler (jrespler@injersey.com)
Tue, 20 Feb 1996 00:40:06 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Jim Scotti wrote:
> With the help of George Lewis at JPL, we were able to get images of the
> NEAR spacecraft about 15-16 hours after launch on Sunday morning using
> the Spacewatch telescope on Kitt Peak. Robert Jedicke carried out the
> observation, getting 6 images over a bit more than half an hour. The
> spacecraft and its booster appear as 2 faint trails in the images, the
> brighter being around V magnitude 20.0-20.5 while the fainter is about a
> magnitude fainter. The spacecraft was between about 310,000 and 320,000
> kilometers from Earth at the time. I have made the images available as a
Good job! Is this a record distance for observation of a spacecraft?
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