[Laser] Re: another lunar experiment
Charles Pooley
ckpooley at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 11 01:13:28 EDT 2008
F1AVYopto at aol.com wrote:
The 1/D² law applies only on the returning way.
The moon has a very poor albedo (max 0,2 in the Tycho area) and the
reflective properties are lambertian...
Yves F1AVY
Actually, the return will be somewhat better--the moon is somewhat retroreflective. There might be a 2x factor improvement. The reflectivity vs phase angle is available--may some google searching could find it.
Charles Pooley KD6HKU
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