Re: [FT] orbital sighting

At 1:10 PM -0500 1/5/04, laserlight@quixnet.net wrote:
>Assuming a colony planet with no air pollution and not much light
>pollution, and a battle taking place in close orbit (eg under 1000km),
and
>an observer with Mk1 Eyeball, could he see:
>
>-- a non-stealth ship around CA/BC size -- roughly 100-200m long,
30-60m
>wide?
>
>--flashes from nukes?
>
>--clouds eg debris of a killed ship?

Considering that the Space Shuttle can catch 
sunlight and be visible from our surface, I'd 
expect a much larger craft to be visible as a 
dot. Weapons fire if it had visibile effects 
would put on quite a show. I'm sure flashes from 
Nukes would be visible.
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