Not that I would ever do this, and seeing how much trouble you can get in just shining one near a police helicopter this would be 10^10 times worse than that I’m sure.
But just to ponder hypothetically let’s say you have some 1+ watt green laser with pretty good divergence and you mount it to a telescope, spend some time sighting it in on some distant mountains or something.
Then you track the ISS's orbit and shine it up at it. How bright do you think it would be from up there?
Do you think they would actually see it?
I remember my dad did something like this for NASA, but it was with some huge lasers that they shined at a retro reflector mounted to a geosynchronous targeting satellite in a low earth orbit.
I’m just wondering if 1+ watts is bright enough to be seen from 100's of miles away.
But just to ponder hypothetically let’s say you have some 1+ watt green laser with pretty good divergence and you mount it to a telescope, spend some time sighting it in on some distant mountains or something.
Then you track the ISS's orbit and shine it up at it. How bright do you think it would be from up there?
Do you think they would actually see it?
I remember my dad did something like this for NASA, but it was with some huge lasers that they shined at a retro reflector mounted to a geosynchronous targeting satellite in a low earth orbit.
I’m just wondering if 1+ watts is bright enough to be seen from 100's of miles away.
