In CA, today's Orange County register has a front page article about Iridium flares! Source credited: Rob Matson. Graphic: George Turney of OC Register. Some text, picture of a satellite & Chris Dorreman's picture of a flare, map of tonight's pass across the OC sky, flares & predicted magnitudes for a few OC cities, how to measure angles (1 fist = 10 degrees), description of magnitude scale. They give URLs http://www.gsoc.dlr.de/satvis/ and the OC Register at http://www.ocregister.com/science/features/ouruniverse. This is good timing; the orbital planes are filling up so that adds interest. Here in OC we have the first cloudless skies for a long time & a fair weekend predicted. Best, Mark -- Mark Hanning-Lee, markhl@prodigy.net