Re: Iridium Flare Prediction Algorithm

From: Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 11 2005 - 03:51:18 EDT

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Kevin Grey wrote:

> Has anyone published an algorithm for predicting iridium 
> flares for a certain location based on elements?

I'm not sure if the following is exactly as requested, 
but Randy John has an Iridium flare algorithm in a text 
file on his SkySat web page:

http://home.comcast.net/~skysat/

Randy's program was, to my knowledge, the first publicly
available one to predict Iridium flares, and I used it to
see my first ones.

Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA

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