Hi all, Recently, I've found something wrong in Heavens Above's prediction on Iridium Flares. My location is Shanghai, China. Latitude is 31°.222(N), and Longitude is 121°.458(E). Yesterday, Heavens Above gave me the Iridium Flares prediction: ______________________ Date: 30 Jul Local Time: 19:40:07 (11:40:07 UT) Time Intensity ( Mag): -6 Alt. : 63° Azimuth: 101° (ESE) Distance to flare centre: 6.0 km (E) Intensity at flare centre(Mag.) : -8 Satellite: Iridium 19 _____________________ Most of them are right, but the Alt. is wrong. The observation is that Alt. is nearly 90°. The error is roughly 30°, so great! I noted the prediction on another Iridium Flare was wrong at Alt. a few days ago, and the error was also 30°. Here, I wanna know whether somebody else has noted this problem and has some solution. Thanks! Best wishes! Clear Skies! Shea ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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