> > Should I be able to see a daytime Iridium flare easily (and not have to > be looking at a very SPECIFIC area of the sky) - of, say, a -8 > brightness, as opposed to the difficulties in picking out Venus .... Of > course, there were some thin clouds in the area. > I haven't logged my flare obs, but I estimate I saw ten out of 30 attempts. I never saw one more than about 5 deg from my center point. I was never successful through haze or filament clouds in daytime (but several times through thick clouds at night, when NO stars could be seen) I have seen a few on a clear sky, but with clouds within five degrees. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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