Re: Obs in Moscow, April 10
Alan Pickup (alan@wingar.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:17:06 +0100
VideoCosmos <icosmos@dol.ru> writes
>...
>An Iridium-type flare was seen in NNE sky at 19:09:30 UTC.
>No prediction from IridFlar with current iridium.tle file from T.S.Kelso
>ftp site.
Hello Igor,
This was probably Iridium 51, as per the following Iridflar prediction
using the "iridiums.tle" file available via my WWW page (and with
"Local Time" = UTC):
Latitude: 55.63500 Longitude: 37.47400 Altitude: 250.0 m
Time Zone: UTC +0.0 h
Iridium Coordinates Range Sat Solar Flare Peak Std Maximum Flare
Ir Date Local Time Azm El RA Decl (km) N Ill Azm Elev M Angle Mag Mag Mag Latitude Longitude Bearing
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51 98- 4-10 19:09:02.0 033 23 19h33 49.3 1615.2 D Lit 322 -19.2 R 2.72 2.3 -6.7 0.8 56.6445 37.4587
51 98- 4-10 19:09:19.5 037 25 19h08 48.7 1554.7 D Lit 322 -19.2 R 0.04 -6.9 -6.9 -8.3 55.6352 37.4956 1.4 E
51 98- 4-10 19:09:37.0 042 26 18h42 47.7 1501.3 D Lit 322 -19.3 R 3.00 2.4 -7.0 1.1 54.6446 37.5023
Elset used:
Iridium 51 3.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 d 780 x 775 km
1 25262U 98018A 98100.21756643 -.00022434 00000-0 -80357-2 0 291
2 25262 86.4010 6.9013 0003189 92.0294 268.1213 14.34272388 2258
Alan
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