Observations from Big Bear City, CA

From: Mark Hanning-Lee (markhl@prodigy.net)
Date: Mon Jul 16 2001 - 19:47:12 PDT

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    All times are local, PDT. A solar panel flare from Iridium 47:
    
    Sun 2001- 7-15  4:54:35  221 16 1218 D L   55  -9  S  -1  61.8 mi W  47
    
    Evening sat pass obs:
    
    7/14 evening pass by 24277 ADEOS, predicted mag 4.5. The first time a
    sat flare made me jump! A brilliant -5 flare under Arcturus. The path is
    a good match to what I saw, but it was running ~ 3 minutes late on the
    elset from mccants.tle.
    7/14 evening 23323 IRS-P2, predicted mag 5.9. Flared to -1 near
    culmination in Bootes, then flared to mag 4 about every 2 s.
    
    7/15 evening Iridium 9 tum, many bright flashes, some reaching mag -3.
    UARS flashed to mag -3 at culmination.
    15482 Cosmos 1624, predicted mag 5.5. Some flashes. 2 min early
    11239 Cosmos 1072 r, predicted mag 5.0. Flashing to mag 2 every 2 s. 2
    min early
    
    Best, Mark
    
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