Re: Iridium 2

From: Markus Mehring (m.m@gmx.de)
Date: Tue Feb 06 2001 - 10:39:35 PST

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On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 07:15:45 +0000, you ("Mark Harris"
<Mark.Harris@southsomerset.gov.uk>) wrote:

>Has anyone actually seen the above flare? There was a
>mag 2 flare predicted by Iridflar for 5:23 GMT, and I
>think I saw it. There was thin cloud about, but there
>was certainly something moving from North to South
>in aproximately the right place at the right time.
>I know the sat itself is unreliable flare-wise due to
>it being at a "parking" altitude, so I was interested
>to know the likelihood of it being what I saw.

Iridium 2 (25527/98066A) is probably a failure. As for flaring, I've never
seen it brighter than mag 2.5.


CU!	Markus

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