On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 5:38 PM, <alain.figer@club-internet.fr> wrote: > Iridium 49 flared as expected, while Iridium 26 remained barely if at all visible to the naked eye at the predicted time. > I I took 2 consecutive photos (of 15 seconds duration each), showing Iridium 26 steady at about magnitude 5. > No flaring at all. Most surprising ! Not really very surprising - Iridium 26 (24903, 1997-043A) failed in August 2011, and was replaced by Iridium 11 (originally 25577, 1998-074A, but currently labelled by Space-Track as 25578, 1998-074B). More interesting is that Iridium 27 is not yet showing signs of tumbling. _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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