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Fly Jarrah White To The Moon Status Report #22

1,201 views · Published 22 August 2013 · 10:15 · Indexed 8 November 2026

Channel: Jarrah White · 2013 · People & Blogs

The latest person to donate suggested that I use the money, not to pay for my own lunar mission, but to build or rent out a telescope to see inspect the Apollo sites from the comfort of earth. This brings me to a subject that I have been meaning to address - and regret to say that because of certain dramas forgot about - for some time.

In 2002 Dr Richard West proposed using the Very Large Telescope in Chile to resolve the Apollo relics and in 2002 the European Southern Observatory announced that the VLT, working in interferometric mode, had achieved resolutions of 1miliarcsecond. Which they stated was equivalent to destinguishing from the earth the headlights of a car on the moon.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1414144/Worlds-biggest-telescope-to-prove-Americans-really-walked-on-Moon.html
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0635/

I contacted the ESO in 2011 asking about renting out the VLT to observe the Apollo sites. I was told that they have never looked at the moon because of "it is not considered a good use of time"! A year later, I was informed in the comments on one of my previous videos that the FAQ page on ESO's website claims that despite reaching miliarcsecond resolutions the VLT cannot be used to resolve the artefacts - for reasons not mentioned. Confused? So am I.
http://www.eso.org/public/about-eso/faq/faq-vlt-paranal.html

Special thanks to Paul Castonguay for the donation.

Fly Jarrah White To The Moon Status Report #22

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