> Cosmos 955. Also, Iridium 67 flared as predicted. I also > saw an additional sat; it caught my eye because it > flashed to negative magnitude, then faded rapidly to > invisibility before increasing to about mag 2 before > fading again to nothing. Time: 22.29 BST (21.29 GMT) > Sat moving: North. Max altitude: approx 50 degrees, due East. Depending on the accuracy of your time and culmination estimate, and of elsets, there a few - or many - candidates. Some are: 21:28:46 68 52 5.5 21574 ERS-1 21:29:37 87 52 5.3 25344 Iridium 73 ? 21:29:59 69 59 6.5 26320 99057HD Very close in culmination is Iridium 73?, not in operational orbit. No other Iridium flares are predicted this week around that time (some before 21:00 BST but higher in the East), so the attitude error must be large. This is THE SAME Iridium from which I saw a similarly unexpected flare in the S on Aug.1 - see http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Aug-2000/0008.html -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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