What about from Astronomical Observatories?Can their large Telescopes see the shape of it?
Hubble might be able to barely image something that is 1/10th of the noted 100m limit at the Moon's distance, or in other words, a 10m target. I'm not sure that any of those satellites have that much spread, but it is just possible that the longest panels might image across 2 pixels in a Hubble photo.
Kind of a moot point since Hubble cannot track "fast" moving objects, even when it imaged the Moon IIRC it just stared at a point in the sky and let the moon drift in front of it. Apparent angular speeds of a GEO satellite as seen from Hubble would (WAG) most of the time be too high for it to track anyway.
They should have a similar angular speed to the moon.
Quote from: Spiritual_Ghost on 01/26/2010 12:40 amI have been wondering if we could see a Geostationary Satellites above us with a good Telescope or from Astronomical Observatory.As everyone knows Geostationary Satellites will orbit fixed on the same coordinations. Is there anyone who have tried viewing the GEO satellites? Share some pictures if you guys have one.There are examples out there. Here's one.http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/pr0106.html - Ed Kyle
I have been wondering if we could see a Geostationary Satellites above us with a good Telescope or from Astronomical Observatory.As everyone knows Geostationary Satellites will orbit fixed on the same coordinations. Is there anyone who have tried viewing the GEO satellites? Share some pictures if you guys have one.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Surveillance_Network#Ground-based_Electro-Optical_Deep_Space_Surveillancehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_Maui_Optical_and_Supercomputing_observatory
Quote from: edkyle99 on 01/26/2010 01:57 amThere are examples out there. Here's one.http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/pr0106.html - Ed KyleEd, I just thought you should know that your link made my day. I'm dying to try this out! too cool
There are examples out there. Here's one.http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/pr0106.html - Ed Kyle
Quote from: edkyle99 on 01/26/2010 01:57 amQuote from: Spiritual_Ghost on 01/26/2010 12:40 amI have been wondering if we could see a Geostationary Satellites above us with a good Telescope or from Astronomical Observatory.As everyone knows Geostationary Satellites will orbit fixed on the same coordinations. Is there anyone who have tried viewing the GEO satellites? Share some pictures if you guys have one.There are examples out there. Here's one.http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/pr0106.html - Ed KyleEd, I just thought you should know that your link made my day. I'm dying to try this out! too cool