i had an idea but was wondering in calculating out the general physics behind it, here we go.

If we look at the Sun were seeing about 8 minutes into the past becuase of the time delay in light, the moons, a couple of seconds cause its closer. But what if we where to use something like hubble and point it at earth from say, the edge of the solar system, surely it would in effect be looking back in time. So say historians wanted to watch the battle of trafalgar[springs to mind, anniversary has just past] and positioned the satellite at a suitable distance, then relayed the information back to earth, would be be able to watch this on our tellys......say for a reasnoble subscription fee?[yes im a business man at heart]

I understand to view something 200 hundred years in the past would not in any way be a "suitable" distance for a satellite as the Sun itslef in millions of miles away and gives us, what is essentialy an eight minute window into to the past. So this is the first problem, the second being what sort of time would u have to account for the information to sent back to earth?, this could possibly be helped be a series of satelites acting in relay to help quicken or boost the signal, i dunno.

Any thoughts?

That would be one powerful telescope, and sine it would be seeing 200 years in the past, it would take 200 years to send that information to earth

~Thanato

why 200 years to send it back?, cassini and huygen probes send information back pretty quickly though

Because Radio travels at the speed of light and you would be viewing light so it would take 200 years to sent it back, And the reason it dosnt take them that long because it is the fact that they arnt that far out in terms of distance.

And technicly to have it viewed 200 years in the past you would need to go 200 light years away.

~Thanato