01-08-2015, 03:09 PM
SBH - sorry for loss and you should be proud. The Hubble Space Telescope was voted as the "ultimate Lockheed Martin innovation" back in 2013:
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/pr...s-hst.html
You may or may not know that we're currently working with both NASA and Lockheed Martin on orbital debris detection and identification in a "planetary protection" programme.
bluesboy - just about everything you can see in the night sky with the naked eye is a star. There are a couple of bright galaxies you can see in the southern hemisphere but from Hawaii it's Andromeda and a couple of others if conditions are exceptionally dark, clear and you know what you're doing. The other things you can see depending on various things are a handful of planets, the moon of course, meteors and the odd comet and satellite. You can also see the dark dust lanes in our Galaxy on a good night and if you know what you're looking for, the zodiacal light which is sunlight reflecting off dust in the solar system.
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/pr...s-hst.html
You may or may not know that we're currently working with both NASA and Lockheed Martin on orbital debris detection and identification in a "planetary protection" programme.
bluesboy - just about everything you can see in the night sky with the naked eye is a star. There are a couple of bright galaxies you can see in the southern hemisphere but from Hawaii it's Andromeda and a couple of others if conditions are exceptionally dark, clear and you know what you're doing. The other things you can see depending on various things are a handful of planets, the moon of course, meteors and the odd comet and satellite. You can also see the dark dust lanes in our Galaxy on a good night and if you know what you're looking for, the zodiacal light which is sunlight reflecting off dust in the solar system.