On 6 Nov 2008 at 15:23, [email protected] wrote:
I recently picked up a pair of Nikon zoom binoculars (10x-25x x 50mm) for wide-field viewing, and I'm going to try to "find" our FM LEO satellites in the night sky with them in the coming days and weeks. I will not see them from here with my naked eye.
73 to all,
Tim - N3TL
AO-40 is much bigger and at perigee about +-1000KM if i remember correctly i don't even believe you will be able to see it and when i say "see it" i should better say swishing it as the closer you are the fastest he will pass.
With all the rumours going around AO-40 couple of years ago. Nobody has never been able to confirm if he is still in one piece or in pieces there is surely a way with the proper equipment to confirm this? Visually or by other mean... If a spy satellite is able to see a text in the Pravda over the shoulder of someone, can they see on the other side! the space one?
P.S.Could be we enter in some sort of Ham fiction HAMFI...
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