Re: seeing the moon landers shadow by telescope!!

yes that is a good idea, maybe it would be possible to use
that image analysis software thats used to look for tiny variations
in a stars intensity as a planet passes in front of it, to look for the
reflection.

ive just realised I forgot to mention that the russians also landed
an unmanned soil gathering lander and something else as well i believe.

"Father Haskell" <fatherhaskell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Mike Williams wrote:
Wasn't it Father Haskell who wrote:

Try to capture a glint of light from the gold-colored foil covering
the landers at local sunset. This only requires light-capturing
ability, not resolution.

That's a good idea.

The glint should vary in brightness as the lighting angle changes in a
way that's different to what you see from rocks. Take a stack of images
and process them to emphasise the differences instead of averaging the
frames.

Compare to a model of a site in question, at given sun inclination --
does the glint brighten and dim at close to the rate seen
with the model? No hard calculations, just photograph while
moving a flashlight over a plastic model.

That makes it better than looking for the shadow, because the shadow of
a lander would look much the same as the shadow of a similarly sized
rock.

Easier to discriminate color than texture with less than optimum
optics.



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