I have finally printed and scanned the photo of Iridium flare near Alcor and Mizar on May 30th, 2002 which was announced on this list. As I thought it was a near miss. Image is on http://hea.iki.rssi.ru/~denis/ir20020530.html (click on the picture to see 300 dpi close-up of the flare). Of course twilight sky turned out very bright but one can clearly see both stars and how close to Alcor satellite was. My estimate of distance is 2 arcmin (stars are 12 arcmin apart from each other). Funny: it was the same Iridium 7 satellite which passed between Jupiter and Saturn back in August 2000 (that was my first photo from this series)! Keep on hunting! Denis in Moscow http://hea.iki.rssi.ru/~denis/astro.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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