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Originally Posted by masraum
Mike, I will concede that you have probably forgotten far more about astronomy and telescopes than I know or probably ever will.
But....
You can absolutely see the shape and structure of ISS through a telescope. I have some 20x60 binoculars through which ISS is just a bright spot in the sky, but my old Zhummel 8" Newt/dob with a 25mm EP (48x) absolutely allowed me to see structure and form of ISS (it was really, REALLY hard to hand track that even when I probably had 120-140* of sky to track through).
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I guess I meant than *other* than the ISS (which we've all seen photos of, transiting the sun, etc) every other satellite is tiny and will be unresolved. Even the ISS is only big enough to see something under somewhat idea situations (high overhead). Once you get something like his 5SE scope cranking away at a degree a second in two axis, the mount will be shaking enough that it might not even be able to resolve the ISS...