There is no need for any specialised photo intelligence assets, simple telescopes with enough F/D and gain will do, there are many amateur astronomers who have imaged craters on the moon (e.g.., google astrophotography) also see http://www.footootjes.nl/Astrophotography_Lunar/Astrophotography_Lunar.html
Question is do we have any amateur astronomer who is also amsat enthusiast ?
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Rocky Jones orbitjet@hotmail.com wrote:
The "national intellegence assets" which would be needed to get an image of AO-40 that "showed things" are probably there...but if you see the pictures they have to kill you (grin).
I know amateurs who have imaged -40 and done so enough to measure the light curve from it.
Hope to hear from them if they are on the list..