thefallguy
10-11-2007, 08:00 PM
Dr. Michio Kaku-The Real Star Wars Project
Dr. Michio Kaku - The Real Star Wars Project - YouTube
John Lenard Walson.
Many things have been said about the way John Lenard Walson can film into space,at satellites and other thing.He does not know what the objects on film are, but Gerry Gilmore was very kind enough to identify some of the objects that are the real star wars hardware up in space.
READ THIS KIND E-MAIL BELOW FROM Professor of Experimental Philosophy
Institute of Astronomy,
Re: iss photo
From: Gerry Gilmore (gil@ast.cam.ac.uk)
Sent: Thu 1/18/07 3:37 AM
To: john lenard (santamonicajohn@hotmail.com)
Hello again,
and again my congratulations on your superb astrophotography
You are clearly getting some images at almost the diffraction limit of
your telescope. In the very sharpest images there are hints of diffraction
rings visible on the edges of the satellites. That is of course the
absolute limit of optical performance, and is only rarely attained.
Interestingly, the process you have, of using a high-quality imaging
system, with fast read-out, and then selecting the rare `perfect' images
is something which has been developed and applied somewhat by one of my
colleagues here. You might like to look at our local web page presenting
some of this:
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~optics/Lucky_Web_Site/
You might also be interested in a journal produced by the
MIT Lincoln Laboratory - which is the group which has built some of the
things you are seeing. Much of what they do is what used to be the
Star wars project, which no doubt involves some of your objects. They
don't talk about the military satellites,
of course, but there are many dicussions of earth surveillance, and
related issues. It is distributed only to academic organisations, so
you may need to get your local library to borrow it, but you
may be able to get this (for free) from
Subscription Coordinator
Room L-054
Lincoln Laboratory
MIT
244 Wood Street
Lexington
MA 0240-9185
USA
best regards
Gerry
Dr. Michio Kaku - The Real Star Wars Project - YouTube
John Lenard Walson.
Many things have been said about the way John Lenard Walson can film into space,at satellites and other thing.He does not know what the objects on film are, but Gerry Gilmore was very kind enough to identify some of the objects that are the real star wars hardware up in space.
READ THIS KIND E-MAIL BELOW FROM Professor of Experimental Philosophy
Institute of Astronomy,
Re: iss photo
From: Gerry Gilmore (gil@ast.cam.ac.uk)
Sent: Thu 1/18/07 3:37 AM
To: john lenard (santamonicajohn@hotmail.com)
Hello again,
and again my congratulations on your superb astrophotography
You are clearly getting some images at almost the diffraction limit of
your telescope. In the very sharpest images there are hints of diffraction
rings visible on the edges of the satellites. That is of course the
absolute limit of optical performance, and is only rarely attained.
Interestingly, the process you have, of using a high-quality imaging
system, with fast read-out, and then selecting the rare `perfect' images
is something which has been developed and applied somewhat by one of my
colleagues here. You might like to look at our local web page presenting
some of this:
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~optics/Lucky_Web_Site/
You might also be interested in a journal produced by the
MIT Lincoln Laboratory - which is the group which has built some of the
things you are seeing. Much of what they do is what used to be the
Star wars project, which no doubt involves some of your objects. They
don't talk about the military satellites,
of course, but there are many dicussions of earth surveillance, and
related issues. It is distributed only to academic organisations, so
you may need to get your local library to borrow it, but you
may be able to get this (for free) from
Subscription Coordinator
Room L-054
Lincoln Laboratory
MIT
244 Wood Street
Lexington
MA 0240-9185
USA
best regards
Gerry