Re: Iridium flare inside Saturn's ring - Part Deux

From: Bjorn Gimle (b.gimle@chello.se)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 16:33:08 EDT

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    Please note that since the Sun (appears to)
    moves just 1 deg/day, Iridium orbits precess less than .5 degrees
    and a flare extends for a few degrees, the Saturn passes are
    not limited to western Russia!
    
    During May 1-3 (?) a number of opportunities will be distributed
    "randomly" over the Earth in the latitude band 51-55 (?) North
    (I have only done a few sample computations)
    
    If you have IridFlar, look for predictions near  6h 39m +22° 45
    If you use H-A, it is a lot more tedious to follow the sat info/
    passes/date-time charts for each possible pass.
    
    
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: "Kevin Fetter" <kfetter@yahoo.com>
    To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org>
    Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 12:07 AM
    Subject: Re: Iridium flare inside Saturn's ring - Part Deux
    
    
    > --- "Denis V. Denissenko" <denis@hea.iki.rssi.ru> wrote:
    > > Can I ask Thomas Fly or Kevin Fetter to create a path prediction for
    the
    > > Iridium 61 transiting Saturn on May 2nd between 19:41 and 19:43 UT
    like
    > > you did for ISS Jupiter transit in February?
    >
    > Here's a prediction.
    
    
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