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May 1, 2012 03:48 pm PDT
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DIY astrophotographers track spy satellites
Amateur astrophotographers are hacking together sophisticated telescopes enabling them to track and document orbiting satellites, including spy satellites. For example, they recently recorded the National Reconnaissance Agency's not-so-secret Lacrosse 5 sat doing a "disappearance trick" in which it periodically vanishes for several seconds. Seen here is astrophotographer Emmanuel Rietsch's photo of the Space Shuttle Atlantis [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/K9aYyP8-7ZQ/diy-astrophotographers-track-s.html
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