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LenSatic
Explorer
Dec 02, 2014

Naked-eye astronomy is more than just meteors.

For you meteor hunters out there in the boonies, there is other visible stuff buzzing around up there: satellites. The easiest to see is the International Space Station. It’s extremely bright and, w...
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pnichols
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Apr 29, 2015
LenSatic,

Your post above reminded me of something: Don't professional/scientific light spectrum astronomy telescopes now use laser beam bounce-back technology in some kind of image adjustment algorithms to help negate the effects of light pollution?

If this is so, has this technology become affordable, yet, for use by amateur astronomers?

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