A few days ago a bright flare from YAOGAN 3 was captured from the station (www.greaa.ch). See the related FPAS report: YAOGAN 3 (32289 / 07055A) - Flare -1 http://www.satflare.com/fpas_reader.html?id=GSC73A201302050502 The flare reached magnitude -1, or so, and lasted just one second, denoting a highly specular reflection. Importing the FPAS report in the desktop tracker, the reflecting surface angles resulted: angle 90.01 deg, tilt 44.95 deg, using an iridium like attitude control. Considering the high specular reflection and the good angles I am confident to say that further flares can be predicted using this model. If someone wants to try predictions, the following page can be used: http://www.satflare.com/track.asp?q=32289 No previous flare reports were present in our DB for this objects. Regards, Simone _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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