On January 11 I wrote:
> For ... January 20, for the Austin area, Iridflar is
> predicting four Iridium flares within less than four
> minutes.
Almost amazingly, the sky was clear this morning, and I
went out into the terribly cold -3 degrees Celsius <grin>
weather and saw all four of them flare pretty much as
predicted. Iridium 21, which was predicted +2, exhibited
two maxima of about that magnitude.
They were the following:
Iridium 21 ("?" 25778, 99-032B; formerly 21A)
Iridium 73 ("?" 25344, 98-032C)
Iridium 14 ("?" 25777, 99-032A; formerly 14A)
Iridium 66 (25289, 98-021E)
They were followed by a pretty good pass of TRMM a minute
or two later.
The observing location was near 30.3086N, 97.7279W, 150m.
Now, the previous evening I had a +1 predicted flare from
Iridium 2"?" (25527, 98-066A), but I did not see anything
at all at one-power from outside my workplace, and it was
a clear evening.
Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
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