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Since the late 1990s, astronomers have made great strides in imaging artificial satellites with small telescopes. This is because of the development of sensitive video cameras. Observers have obtained angular resolutions of one-half of an arc second. This corresponds to about a meter for a satellite 400 km away. Others have recorded satellites transiting our Sun and Moon.
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Schmude, R. (2012). Imaging Artificial Satellites and Doing Research. In: Artificial Satellites and How to Observe Them. Astronomers' Observing Guides. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3915-8_5
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