> A check of the data from WSRN suggests a 2 sq metre object has > a magnitude at 1000 miles of mag 7.0 or so, so at a rangle of > 60,000Km > it would be about 8.5 mags fainter, putting it at mag 15.5 > Rather hard visually, but fairly easy for the amatuer observers who > usually > hunt asteroids, several of whom demonstrably reach mag 19.0. I understand where you get the 8.5 mag drop for the increased range, but does anyone know how to compute the theoretical magnitude when the RCS is NOT equivalent to ~ 2m^2? BTW, what is "WSRN"? Thanks! ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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