> > More recently, however, Iridium has sought court injunctions to > > prevent Motorola from destroying the constellation .... > > Question: Is the above information on-topic? > > Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA Close enough for me because I got nuked by an Iridium last night at my observatory in Vanderpool, Texas. Last night was the first astronomically decent night in South Texas since summer began so I hotfooted it out my observatory. I was actually outside my observatory doing piggyback astrophotography while talking to a friend on my cell phone. Suddenly everything lit up and I thought a car was coming down the road at me. When I looked down the road to the north, I saw an Iridium building intinsity just below Polaris and it got REALLY bright. It was as bright an Iridum I ever saw, but I hadn't even bothered to make any predictions, so i don't know which one it was. Fortunately, I usually aim a meteor patrol camera with a 28 mm lens at Polaris and let it run all night while I'm at the observatory. It bagged the Iridium in good style. Robert Reeves reeves10@swbell.net 520 Rittiman Rd. www.robertreeves.com San Antonio, Texas 78209 210-828-9036 USA 29.484 98.440 200 meters ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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