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Old 04-09-2014, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by julianh72 View Post
I would think that getting a visual on any spacecraft which is not in Earth orbit would be impossible.
Agreed, that's why I said:
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While Some of the interplanetary spacecraft will have bigger solar arrays than most of the GEO sats they're so far away that I think they'll be much too faint even to image with big scopes, dark skies, and sensitive CCDs let alone observe through a dob.
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