LEM too do !

[Lasernerd]

I would like to see one of these meets set up an actual moon bounce
with lasers hitting the retro's on the moon!

[mixedgas]

I would like to see one of these meets set up an actual moon bounce
with lasers hitting the retro's on the moon!

You know that needs a 16" telescope, and you get about 7 photons back, requiring gated receiving , right?

Steve

[Lasernerd]

You know that needs a 16" telescope, and you get about 7 photons back, requiring gated receiving , right?

Steve

yup!
Lot's of math!
To actually capture the event!
Maybe a race who can get the largest count in a allotted time period?

[daedal]

yup!
Lot's of math!
To actually capture the event!
Maybe a race who can get the largest count in a allotted time period?

Wouldn't that kinda depend on the amount of power sent out? I don't have a multi-watt greenie (I saw a show about it where they were sending ~100W or so in pulses), and so I'm out of this race... and I'm sure many others are too...

--DDL

[Lasernerd]

Wouldn't that kinda depend on the amount of power sent out? I don't have a multi-watt greenie (I saw a show about it where they were sending ~100W or so in pulses), and so I'm out of this race... and I'm sure many others are too...

--DDL

5 watts is more than enough!

[daedal]

Hmm... my bad then... I just regurgitated what the show stated ... They didn't really specify that that was the minimum requirement...

Perhaps they used that much power to increase the accuracy of the reading? It was to measure the distance to the moon... Pretty fascinating stuff

--DDL

[Lasernerd]

Hmm... my bad then... I just regurgitated what the show stated ... They didn't really specify that that was the minimum requirement...

Perhaps they used that much power to increase the accuracy of the reading? It was to measure the distance to the moon... Pretty fascinating stuff

--DDL

It is very fascinating!!
I would hope we would maybe even try to do this as amateurs

[allthatwhichis]

When I was in college I saw an "artist" who wanted to paint a picture of a laser dot on the moon. He set up a website asking anyone and everyone to shine their laser pointers at the moon all at the same time. I paid attention to it because it was on my birthday, but it was real cloudy out an I lost interest playing a video game or something. I didn't think it was really possible, especially in hind sight; it was 2001 and "everyone" had access to <5mW reds... We might be able to pull something off now. How many CuBr owners we got on here now?