I'm thinking of getting a night vision scope for several purposes, none of which are to watch my neighbors of course! :~) Anyway, I wonder if it would help me to see any faint satellites or moon flares or anything like that that I would otherwise miss. Any ideas? Tom Iowa USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Oler" <cvn65vf94@msn.com> To: <tlj18@juno.com>; <SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 4:53 PM Subject: Re: Starshine-2 not seen again > I wonder if a "balloon" wouldn't be better. Of course one the size of Echo > would really be neat (particularly for my other hobby...grin) but even 1/3 > or /14 that would be quite visible. > > Robert > > > >From: Jonathan T Wojack <tlj18@juno.com> > >To: SeeSat-L@blackadder.lmsal.com > >Subject: Re: Starshine-2 not seen again > >Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 16:13:11 -0500 > > > > > Your frustration only emphasizes that the current project design is > > > never > > > going to produce enough visual observations of sufficient > > > accuracy for air drag measurement. A matter I raised in the posting > > > containing the observation report. > > > >I think that if the future spheres have a faster rotational period, then > >more flashes will result (i.e., more observations). > > > >------------------------------ > >Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com > >39.706d N 75.683d W > >http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projectorion > >5 hours behind UT (-5) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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