Re: Telescope Shuttle pictures

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 Daniel Deak informed us


>       Here's a link to a web page (in French) with very good images
> of the Space Shuttle in orbit taken by Denis Bergeron in Quebec
> with a 20 cm Meade LX-200 with a 26 mm eyepiece coupled
> to an 8 mm video camera and driven with C-Sat software using a
> special technique.
> http://www.globetrotter.net/astroccd/berdta00.htm


Thanks -- it appears to be quite a good site, not to mention a chance to
practice reading French.

BTW and FWIW,  while attempting to bring order to my library,  I came across
the seminal paper that developed the theory of high-resolution imaging via
short exposures.  For those who would like to understand how the satellite
images at the above and similar sites "beat the seeing," it's

"Probably of getting a lucky short-exposure image through turbulence"
by David L. Fried
Journal of the Optical Society of America, Vol. 68,  No.12,  December 1978,
pp. 1651 - 1658

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