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by dnevill
Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:15 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Which satellite is this?
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Keck's laser was actually my first thought as I was just reading about it yesterday before the APOD was posted, but as an ealier post mentioned the laser doesn't generate a guide star any brighter than 9-11th magnitude, whereas this object was much brighter than Saturn, also seen in the image. It's ...