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user-inactivated  ·  4395 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Still blowin' my mind

    I could read [...]

Were the binoculars on a tripod? Is it possibly/easy to track stuff like that by hand?





TIYP  ·  4395 days ago  ·  link  ·  

at that distance apparent speed is slow. i had 20/10 vision back then and a steady hand, the letters were at least 50 feet tall.