From: "Rod Sladen" <rodsladen@crosswinds.net> To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Cc: "Rod Sladen" <rodsladen@crosswinds.net> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 06:59 PM Subject: Re: Two Iridium flares right next to each other > Kevin Mangis (kmangis00@yahoo.com) wrote: > > > Last night (9 Jan 02) while watching Iridium 42 flare to > -2 as predicted by Heavens-above (19:02:29 local time or > > 00:02:29 UTC), I saw a much brighter flare right next to > > it in the sky which appeared to be from a nearby Iridium > satellite that was not predicted by Heavens-above. > > This must have been a very pleasant surprise. It is a nice perk, two flares in formation. One of my very first Iridium observations was a tandem pair flaring. As I reported then, it was indeed a "pleasant[ly] surprise[d]".. ----------------- March 28, 1998 01:12:07 GMT (20:12:07 Local EST) 28.38091N 81.35412W I attempted a long exposure photograph of Iridium 48 which was predicted by GSOC to flare to Mag. -2. I was pleasantly surprised to observe another satellite moving in tandem, separated by about 30 arcminutes. This second satellite flared weakly (about Mag. +2) and should have been the highlight of my photographs so far. I ran the numbers through Skymap and confirmed that Iridium 23 was the second satellite. ------------------ Stephen Home Page: stephmon.com Satellite Hunting: sathunt.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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