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? JRespler@InJersey.com Jay.Respler@bytewise.org Voice 908-431-1464 Satellite Tracker * Early Typewriter Collector Freehold, New Jersey