Seeing This Stuff

Started by Rod Kaufman, 09/03/2011 07:56PM
Posted 09/03/2011 07:56PM Opening Post
If anybody puts in a significant degree of eyepiece time, they are going to see this:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/09/space-junk-expert-on-why-nasa-needs-to-clean-up-space.html
I mean when you consider you're essentially looking up through a soda straw field of view and you see this stuff whizzing through the field, sometimes to or more at a time, then you begin to realize how much junk actually orbits the planet...
Posted 09/04/2011 05:41AM #1
Seems like just about every observing session I go out on, I see at least one satellite or piece of junk fly through the field of view while at the eyepiece.

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