Greg Roberts said, > Hi All > These observations were made using my CoSaTrak system whilst doing > positional observations. The satellite/s were normally observed for at > least two minutes of the transit. [Snip] Can you construct actual light curves from videos of satellite passes? If so , it might be intresting to look at near-zenith non-flaring Iridium passes. I suspect you'd find deep minima, as the body of the satellite would mostly be behind the main mission antennas and the antennas would be reflecting empty space -- kind of an "anti-flare". There might be other geometries that would produce the same effect -- perhaps IRIDFLAR could be modified to calculate them. (Such a modified program would naturally be called IRIDDIM. :) ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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