In my terminology a flare is a slow event, caused from an object permanently oriented relative to Earth horizon, Sun or stars, or an object rotating very slowly. In other cases I call it glint or flash - if the object is spinning on an axis which precesses less than a few degrees/day these can only be predicted to occur somewhere along a "circle" in the sky, but not where and when if the satellite moves faster than its spin rate. And if it is tumbling, like KMS-4 may be, flashes appear to be random. -------------------------------------------------------- Björn Gimle, COSPAR 5919 59.2617 N, 18.6169 E, 51 m Satellite observation formats described: http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html --------------------------------------------------------- 2016-02-16 6:36 GMT+01:00 Greg Roberts via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>: > As far as I know this satellite has not yet been observed > by amateurs so there is no data to work on. I have partial > passes before shadow entry but due to cloudy weather > and laziness I have not yet observed it. Maybe soon :-)) > > Good luck > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Tue Feb 16 2016 - 07:10:49 UTC
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