The moon is about the same size as Australia. Things from the Apollo
missions are about the size of a clothes line. If you where on the moon,
you could not see a clothes line could you. I think that the smallest
object you can see on the moon with a 8" telescope is 2km in diameter.
"Alex Kilpatrick" wrote in message
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I thought of this after the previous question about whether a telescope
could see any of the apollo stuff on the moon.

If you were standing on the moon with an average telescope (say 8"),
could you see any man-made landmarks on Earth?

If you look he

http://www.snopes.com/science/greatwal.htm

Alan Bean is quoted as saying that no man-made object is visible from
the moon, but he didn't use a telescope.


Alex