RE: Satellite Structure

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There is a good article in a recent Sky & Telescope (July?) that showed
what a group in Boston is doing with a slewing telescope and grabbing
separate frames from video pictures to create a composite image with
little atmospheric blurring. They were able to resolve wonderfully small
features with Mir and the Shuttle docked.

That said, with "regular" telescopic equipment, atmospheric
unsteadiness, and with most satellites being smaller AND farther away,
you are not likely to see more than a very slight blurry elongation. Of
course, TiPS is an exception in this regard because it is an extreme
example of an elongated "satellite".

Of course, I stand to be corrected.

Good observing,
Alister.

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>From: 	Koos van Zyl[SMTP:koos@writeme.com]
>Sent: 	July 21, 1998 4:11 PM
>To: 	SeeSat-L@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de
>Subject: 	Satellite Structure
>
>Hi!
>
>Ok, I was wondering whether I would be able to see any satellite structure
>through a telescope? I have access to a 12 inch, so my best bet would really
>be geostationary sats, cos well, a 12" is a bit difficult to manouvre fast
>and accurately. Plus it's in a dome...
>Will I be able to see structure of sats as far away as the geostationary
>ones?
>
>Focal lenght: 300cm
>Eyepieces: 25mm + 12mm + 9mm
>
>Thank you!
>Koos van Zyl
>
>
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