On 14 Nov 2003 01:14:26 GMT, Fred Garvin wrote:

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 19:09:15 -0500, John wrote:

I am wondering...we went to the moon some time ago. I know that no
telescope on earth can see the landers we left there. At that "older"
time, could anyone with a telescope actually "see" the ship, say, pehaps
half way out there or so? Or, maybe half way (or so) back from the moon?

No, at least you couldn't recognize it as a ship. There is a photo out
there somewhere of Apollo 13 seen as a dot with debris cloud however.
Perhaps a google search will find it. I have a copy but have no idea where
I stored it.


I know the telescope technology was poor back then, would we be able to
see new ships out in space, on the way to their destination, with any
"new" scope?


In the forseeable future I'd say no. At least you wouldn't be able to
tell the ship's shape in any case. Telescopes and optics have come far but
not far enough yet.
If they build the OWL (Overwhelmingly Large Telescope), would that
suffice?

http://www.eso.org/projects/owl/



Knowing full well that all the kooks would *STILL* say it's
faked.........................


BTW, I want one. I can supply the land, if someone will build me the
scope :-))

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