Various list members might be interested to know that Gordon Garradd of Loomberah NSW imaged Contour near its current apogee. It was magnitude 16 at the time according to the software package he uses to reduce his data. The observations were passed on to JPL. He was of course using his 50cm newtonian and a very good CCD chip. Gordon currently holds the record for observing a spacecraft by optical means. The Controllers of NEAR arranged its solar panels to glint the Sun towards Earth when it was 33 million KM away. Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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