anyone photogaph the ol' Lunar Rover from earth?

June 20, 2007, from Lloyd Erlick,

hq.nasa.gov.html


There are really beautiful pictures from the
moon.

My question: if all that hardware was just
left sitting out on the surfce of the moon
when they left, is it visible from here?

Does anyone photogaph the ol' Lunar Rover??

regards,
--le
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"Lloyd Erlick" Lloyd at @the-wire. dot com wrote in message
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June 20, 2007, from Lloyd Erlick,

hq.nasa.gov.html


There are really beautiful pictures from the
moon.

My question: if all that hardware was just
left sitting out on the surfce of the moon
when they left, is it visible from here?

Does anyone photogaph the ol' Lunar Rover??

regards,
--le
________________________________
Lloyd Erlick Portraits, Toronto.
website: www.heylloyd.com
telephone: 416-686-0326
email:
________________________________
--


I did, but the lighting was pretty flat, and I couldn't get the fill-flash
right!

I used a Holga...

Ken Hart spake thus:

"Lloyd Erlick" Lloyd at @the-wire. dot com wrote in message
...

June 20, 2007, from Lloyd Erlick,

hq.nasa.gov.html

There are really beautiful pictures from the
moon.

My question: if all that hardware was just
left sitting out on the surfce of the moon
when they left, is it visible from here?

Does anyone photogaph the ol' Lunar Rover??

I did, but the lighting was pretty flat, and I couldn't get the fill-flash
right!

I used a Holga...

.... with the accessory super-tele 5000 mm mirror lens, I take it?


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On Jun 20, 10:58 pm, Lloyd Erlick Lloyd at @the-wire. dot com wrote:
June 20, 2007, from Lloyd Erlick,

hq.nasa.gov.html

There are really beautiful pictures from the
moon.

My question: if all that hardware was just
left sitting out on the surfce of the moon
when they left, is it visible from here?

Does anyone photogaph the ol' Lunar Rover??

regards,
--le
________________________________
Lloyd Erlick Portraits, Toronto.
website:www.heylloyd.com
telephone: 416-686-0326
email:
________________________________
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With the Hubble, perhaps ... ?

David Nebenzahl wrote:
Ken Hart spake thus:

"Lloyd Erlick" Lloyd at @the-wire. dot com wrote in message
...

June 20, 2007, from Lloyd Erlick,

hq.nasa.gov.html

There are really beautiful pictures from the
moon.

My question: if all that hardware was just
left sitting out on the surfce of the moon
when they left, is it visible from here?

Does anyone photogaph the ol' Lunar Rover??

I did, but the lighting was pretty flat, and I couldn't get the
fill-flash right!

I used a Holga...

... with the accessory super-tele 5000 mm mirror lens, I take it?

.... and the vintage image-stabilizer? (4 cubic yards of concrete with
a tripod-mount on top)

Llyod asks:
Does anyone photogaph the ol' Lunar Rover??

Google sez:
http://www.wonderquest.com/hubble.htm

--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Meters
http://www.darkroomautomation.com/index.htm
n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com

On Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:30:35 GMT, "Nicholas
O. Lindan" wrote:

Llyod asks:
Does anyone photogaph the ol' Lunar Rover??

Google sez:
http://www.wonderquest.com/hubble.htm




June 22, 2007, from Lloyd Erlick,

Yet they can resolve individual tiles on the
Shuttle with scopes on the ground. Subtending
is better at close range, eh? ...

regards,
--le

On Jun 22, 11:30 am, "Nicholas O. Lindan" wrote:
Llyod asks:

Does anyone photogaph the ol' Lunar Rover??

Google sez:http://www.wonderquest.com/hubble.htm

--
Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Darkroom Automation: F-Stop Timers, Enlarging Metershttp://www.darkroomautomation.com/index.htm
n o lindan at ix dot netcom dot com

I already knew the answer, but did the numbers anyway:
figure out what angle a meter-size object subtends at the
Moon's distance, figure out how big a telescope you would
need to resolve it. You have to ignore Earth's atmosphere.
On nights of good seeing I amuse myself by counting craters
on the floor of Plato, but those are still 1000 times the size
of Apollo lunar hardware.

Betelgeuse subtends a larger angle than a Lunar Rover
on the Moon. Go figure.

Laura Halliday VE7LDH "Que les nuages soient notre
Grid: CN89mg pied a terre..."
ICBM: 49 16.05 N 122 56.92 W - Hospital/Shafte

Does anyone photogaph the ol' Lunar Rover??

In fact NASA has photographed it since the original landing. They found
it up on blocks with the wheels stolen; proof that malicious alien life
exists on the moon - and on earth!

Lloyd Erlick wrote:

Yet they can resolve individual tiles on the
Shuttle with scopes on the ground. Subtending
is better at close range, eh? ...

regards,
--le


With the Shuttle at 320km altitude (same as the ISS), a tile seen from
the ground is approx 0.13 arc-seconds across.

The lunar rovers are more than a thousand times further away, and seen
from the Earth would be approx 0.002 arc-seconds across.

There's a nice explanation of what it would take to photograph the lunar
rovers are explained on this page:
http://calgary.rasc.ca/moonscope.htm

In short, "it would probably be just as expensive to build the required
telescope as it would cost to go there and take a picture with a normal
camera."

-Tim