At 04:13 PM 6/3/00 +0200, you wrote: >At 07.49 03/06/00 -0500, you wrote: > >>Ron Dantowitz, who sometimes drops by here and whose high-resolution video >>images of the Shuttle, Mir, etc. have been published in Sky & Telescope and >>on the net, is branching out into planetary astronomy: >>http://www.spaceviews.com/2000/06/01c.html . > > From the article: > >"Dantowitz developed the technique in recent years using a > smaller telescope at the museum. That smaller system has been > able to resolve in considerable the detail the space shuttle in > orbit as it made daytime passes over the museum, among other > objects." > >Is there any of these pictures of Space Shuttle taken by Dantowitz available in Internet ? The press release the Museum of Science in Boston issued about the Mercury images features a couple examples of such images, including one of the shuttle docked to ISS: http://www.mos.org/whats_happening/planetarium/mercury.html Keep in mind these shuttle images were done with a 30-cm telescope at (essentially) sea level. Cheers, Jeff Foust Editor, SpaceViews -- http://www.spaceviews.com/ jeff@spaceviews.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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