Bob B.
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Post by Bob B. on Nov 27, 2005 2:28:03 GMT -4
So then there are photos of the Apollo crafts in near Earth orbit or just on their way to the Moon which were taken from the ground, while the craft were still visible? Anyone have a link to some? Try this page: www.astr.ua.edu/keel/space/apollo.html
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Post by PhantomWolf on Nov 27, 2005 2:28:53 GMT -4
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Post by Van Rijn on Nov 27, 2005 6:05:45 GMT -4
Just a short personal note: I watched Apollo-Soyuz flying overhead. It was easily visible to the naked eye, though not quite as bright as ISS. You just have to be in the right place at the right time.
It isn't hard to find these things in LEO.
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Bob B.
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Post by Bob B. on Nov 27, 2005 12:10:52 GMT -4
I've seen both Mir and the Space Shuttle fly overhead. Both were very bright and hard to miss (if you happened to be looking up at the time).
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Post by Kiwi on Nov 27, 2005 17:46:59 GMT -4
Piper, have a look at a copy of "National Geographic", Volume 135, No. 5, May 1969, pages 610-611, where there is a photo taken during the Apollo 8 mission. The caption says: "Extraordinary photograph made by a tracking camera in Spain shows the 600-mile-wide cloud created by the rocket when it dumped liquid oxygen. Now, half an hour later at a height of 26,000 miles, the S-IVB spews a smaller double cloud as it vents excess liquid hydrogen. The speck above and to the right of the rocket is the spacecraft." The credit reads: "The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, San Fernando, Spain." There are a lot of stars in the photo which may aid in locating the craft. The photo is approximately 21cm wide x 12 cm high. The large oxygen cloud takes up only a small amount of the total area, is shaped like a side-on view of a fairly flat mushroom with a very thin stem, and is approximately 2 x 5 cm. The much smaller hydrogen cloud is about .5 x 2 cm. Here's the link to "Telescope Tracking of the Apollo Lunar Missions" www.astr.ua.edu/keel/space/apollo.htmlThere are a lot of photos, so the page takes a while to download.
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