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Don't know them and that was quite a task finding that cherry 80ies Starfire 4 with SP6 stoptailpiece and HB-1s in the video!

EDIT: I now think it is an first half 90ies one, 1994 or 1995 or something.

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I'm only having difficulties with the year...but now think it is an first half 90ies.
TRC has SF-4 written on it.
Pickups are real HB-1.
The pickguard has no GUILD written on it.
Thin body.


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Ralf, I have an acquaintance who was a contractor for NASA. If I understood him correctly, he and his company could take close up photos of the underside of the space shuttle while it was in orbit (do not ask me how!). Your isolating these photos reminded me of him. You've never worked for NASA have you ?:D
 

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Ralf, I have an acquaintance who was a contractor for NASA. If I understood him correctly, he and his company could take close up photos of the underside of the space shuttle while it was in orbit (do not ask me how!). Your isolating these photos reminded me of him. You've never worked for NASA have you ?:D

There is a persistent belief that space based optical systems can "read" a license plate if the angles are right. I can neither confirm nor deny.

I could not find it quickly but yes, NASA was able to inspect the protective tiles in space, from the ground. It was basically an optical system as I recall.

A local brewer had worked for NASA before he committed full time, professionally, to brewing beer. Very good beer and fun to talk to if you are a beer nerd and get excited about "plato" and "specific gravity".

All that said, the ability to grab a frame from a video is fairly trivial as is the ability to zoom a photo. Many photo enhancements are also standard on computing devices. The brilliance is in understanding and explaining what is seen. If I were going to accuse @SFIV1967 of a secret career or specialized training I would look for a background in the intelligence community ("spies") as a photo interpreter.
 

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There is a persistent belief that space based optical systems can "read" a license plate if the angles are right. I can neither confirm nor deny.

I could not find it quickly but yes, NASA was able to inspect the protective tiles in space, from the ground. It was basically an optical system as I recall.

A local brewer had worked for NASA before he committed full time, professionally, to brewing beer. Very good beer and fun to talk to if you are a beer nerd and get excited about "plato" and "specific gravity".

All that said, the ability to grab a frame from a video is fairly trivial as is the ability to zoom a photo. Many photo enhancements are also standard on computing devices. The brilliance is in understanding and explaining what is seen. If I were going to accuse @SFIV1967 of a secret career or specialized training I would look for a background in the intelligence community ("spies") as a photo interpreter.
Dear Mr. Frono: The tile inspection is precisely what was being done. What I posted was from the brain of a guy (me) who still owns and uses a clam phone (which works very well, by the way). I should probably "keep it in my lane" with regards to any "technological" thoughts that may erupt in my mind in the future. P.S. I've always wondered what the specific gravity of Plato is -- is it more or less (higher or lower ??) than Socrates?
 

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There is a persistent belief that space based optical systems can "read" a license plate if the angles are right. I can neither confirm nor deny.
Not with a single picture. Due to physical limitations a resolution of about 2 inches is probably as good as you can get from a single image. (and that's during perfect conditions only, atmospheric distortion will reduce that by a factor of 2 or more). So your pixel size is limited to roughly two inches, means reading a US licence plate would be impossible. But now comes picture computing. You take many images quickly one after another and software uses only the best pixels from each shot, so you could add piece by piece of a licence plate together and would get a readable result I guess. Still hard with the small letters on US plates but European licence plates use much bigger letters.

In general it's like going from the left picture to get the right one:

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