can amateurs bounce photons off the mirrors left there by Apollo 17 yet
or does it still need industrial grade lasers?
or does it still need industrial grade lasers?
You do need access to a large telescope (at least 1.2m based on the wiki article), a sensitive detector (is photomultiplier tube sensitive enough??) and most importantly, access to your local laser clearinghouse so you don't accidentally shoot an airplane, blind the pilot and got arrested, or a satellite and start a war (if you believe some guy on quora). Probably the last part is the hardest thing for an amateur