the truth film of space craft
in dayFrom:Gerry Gilmore
(............)Sent:Sun 1/21/07
12:47 PMTo: john lenard
(..............)Hi John,my
work address is perfectly
safe, thanks.I wouldn't worry
too much about Nasa
restricting you or your
information.They are a
civilian agency, and
astronomers work with them all
the time
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the truth film of space craft
in dayFrom:Gerry Gilmore
(............)Sent:Sun 1/21/07
12:47 PMTo: john lenard
(..............)Hi John,my
work address is perfectly
safe, thanks.I wouldn't worry
too much about Nasa
restricting you or your
information.They are a
civilian agency, and
astronomers work with them all
the time.Many of my colleagues
are indeed nasa staff.There is
of course nothing like posting
stuff on the internet if you
dofeel
restricted.ciaoGerryimages�?�F
rom: Gerry Gilmore
(SECRET)Sent: Sat 2/10/07 2:37
AMTo: john lenard
(santamonicajohn@hotmail) Hi
John,thank you for the moon
images: once again they show
that you are anexcellent
photographer.There are of
course many satellites in
orbit, only a few of which
areanything to do with JPL,
but these are readily seen
byastro-photographers like
yourself all over the world.
You should just enjoy the
excellence of your images, and
make themavailable as widely
as is possible, through the
public web-sites,magazines,
etc, so you can get the credit
you deserve for your
skills.best regardsGerryFrom:
Gerry Gilmore (SECRET) Sent:
Thu 1/18/07 3:37 AM To: john
lenard
(santamonicajohn@hotmail)
Hello again,and again my
congratulations on your superb
astrophotographyYou are
clearly getting some images at
almost the diffraction limit
ofyour telescope. In the very
sharpest images there are
hints of diffractionrings
visible on the edges of the
satellites. That is of course
theabsolute limit of optical
performance, and is only
rarely attained.Interestingly,
the process you have, of using
a high-quality imagingsystem,
with fast read-out, and then
selecting the rare `perfect'
imagesis something which has
been developed and applied
somewhat by one of
mycolleagues here. You might
like to look at our local web
page presentingsome of
this:astm.ac.uk/~optics/Luck..
.You might also be interested
in a journal produced by
theMIT Lincoln Laboratory -
which is the group which has
built some of thethings you
are seeing. Much of what they
do is what used to be theStar
wars project, which no doubt
involves some of your objects.
Theydon't talk about the
military satellites,of course,
but there are many dicussions
of earth surveillance,
andrelated issues. It is
distributed only to academic
organisations, soyou may need
to get your local library to
borrow it, but youmay be able
to get this (for free)
fromSubscription
CoordinatorRoom L-054Lincoln
LaboratoryMIT244 Wood
StreetLexingtonMA
0240-9185USAbest regardsGerry

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