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GGXman

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For the past couple days I have been using a green 5mw laser to polar align my star tracker and living a few miles away from a large international airport I only using it for a second or two at a time two times a night. Im extremely careful and scan the sky a couple times and use a airplane tracking map to see if their is any planes in that direction also. I live in southwestern USA. Is this illegal and should I keep doing this or not?
 
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Welcome to the LPF. If you don't interfere with aircraft you should be okay. What wavelength is your laser? There aren't any direct diode lasers in green that output 5 watts. Must be a 532nm DPSS laser.
 




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