--- John Locker <john@satcom.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > > I dont mean this one..... > http://www-int.stsci.edu/~jordan/sts107/notstarfire.html which was > obviously an amateur image..............I recall seeing an image of > Columbia which was so good , you could read the logo on the wing. Perhaps you're thinking of these, http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts107/030225amos/visible.html , which were taken from Maui and obviously used some sort of atmospheric compensation technique. And a big telescope. However, as far as the Russian images go, the picture of their equipment suggests the telescope has a very modest aperture -- I'd guess well below a meter. In which case the images, which look to have resolutions of a couple of tenths of an arc second, are close to diffraction-limited. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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