Re: J.J. Says

On 22 July, 14:39, spintronic <spintro...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 22, 2:25 pm, "J.J. O'Shea" <try.not...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:16:54 -0400, spintronic wrote

[spintonic doubts J.J. O'Shea could track Appllo 11]

<snip>

Whether you like it or not. All that's necessary to prove it is to get out an
8" 'scope and go looking for magnitude 15 objects.

You have no reference to distance,

you don't know what magnitude is do you?

<snip>

The alternative, of course, is that amateur astronomy publications (_all_ of
them) have been lying for nearly a century,

Apollo went up in 1969. You're batty.

he's talking about the ability to see Mag 15 objects with an 8inch
telescope


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--
Nick Keighley

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