Re: did man walk on the moon...and creationism.

On 17 July, 14:21, nos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (J. J. Lodder) wrote:
Ye Old One <use...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:24:28 -0400, "J.J. O'Shea"
<try.not...@xxxxxxxxxxx> enriched this group when s/he wrote:

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:00:14 -0400, spintronic wrote
(in article
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On 15 July, 21:31, "J.J. O'Shea" <try.not...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:56:01 -0400, HighQ wrote

I, personally, had a reflector scope

Oh Dear, Oh Dear, Oh Dear.

A 8-inch Newtonian, actually. Not that this will mean anything to you.

I suppose you had x-ray vision when you was tracking it on the far
side of the earth.

Nope. I merely tracked it when it was visible, got the orbital parameters,
ran the equations to show where it should be the next night, and pointed the
scope in the right direction. Standard stuff, man, standard stuff. Not even
hard to do, especially when there are books with tables of astro data
published so that all that need be done is look up the right table...

Hell, as I had a camera, a motorised mount, and a timer, I didn't even need
to be _awake_ to take a a full sequence. All that was necessary was to get an
initial position and timestamp, predict the new position at time 't' from
that, and set the system to take pix as necessary, and review the pix in the
morning. I took the first few pix of the night myself, before I had to go to
bed, and checked to make sure that I'd done the math right and had the 'scope
pointed correctly. Once that was done, the semi-auto system would handle
things until dawn.

And, btw... you really should review your grammar; 'when you was tracking it'
is incorrect. That should be 'when you were tracking it'. Do try to at least
be as good as a monkey, dear boy. I know that someone with your lack of
intellect finds it difficult to keep up with our tailed primate cousins, but
at least try. You're letting the large tailless primate side done, man..

Nothing whatsoever wrong with your summery there. Many optical
astronomers kept a close eye on all the Apollo missions. If I recall
correctly it was only as the missions got close enough to the moon
that it was difficult to occult the glare of the lunar disc that
visibility (particularly on film) became a real problem.

I was content to just listen in to crew chit-chat and  decoding some
of the simpler telemetry signals.

And to complement the tracking,
some Apollo missions left laser reflectors,
which are still used routinely
to track the moon to cm accuracy.
There for all to see.

I don't know if amateurs have done it too,
big telescope and powerful laser required.

Jan

This was mentioned on 14/7, please keep up.

Wombat

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