More distant tracking: Lunar Orbiters

I've had a gratifying response to my request for additional
reports of telescopic tracking of the Apollo missions in'
translunar coast.On a related topic, courtesy of Markus Mehring and
Stave Larson, I can now bring the telescopic picture of
Lunar Orbiter 5 into the googlable realm:
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/space/lunorbiter.html

Somehow most of these things seem to get done while I'm
avoiding particularly tedoious graphics for some research paper
or other.

Bill Keel

In message , William C. Keel
writes
I've had a gratifying response to my request for additional
reports of telescopic tracking of the Apollo missions in'
translunar coast.On a related topic, courtesy of Markus Mehring and
Stave Larson, I can now bring the telescopic picture of
Lunar Orbiter 5 into the googlable realm:
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/space/lunorbiter.html

The picture of Lunar Orbiter 5 is reproduced in Andrew Wilson's "Solar
System Log" (ISBN 07106 0440) in an image which also shows part of the
Moon's limb, and the additional information that the craft was
approaching apogee (2022.5 km), and appeared as "a variable 12-15th
magnitude star".
An attempt to photograph it on January 18 failed.
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In message , William C. Keel
writes
I've had a gratifying response to my request for additional
reports of telescopic tracking of the Apollo missions in'
translunar coast.On a related topic, courtesy of Markus Mehring and
Stave Larson, I can now bring the telescopic picture of
Lunar Orbiter 5 into the googlable realm:
http://www.astr.ua.edu/keel/space/lunorbiter.html

The picture of Lunar Orbiter 5 is reproduced in Andrew Wilson's "Solar
System Log" (ISBN 07106 0440) in an image which also shows part of the
Moon's limb, and the additional information that the craft was
approaching apogee (2022.5 km), and appeared as "a variable 12-15th
magnitude star".
An attempt to photograph it on January 18 failed.
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Save the Hubble Space Telescope!
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