Marco, That's great news! In fact even better news is that I have just re-run the prediction with latest TLE's (the one's I used were quite old) and now I get Flare Results for Observer Lat=52.154 Long=4.491 Satellite NORAD 25017 Flare Results for Flight Mode YVV Panel Angle 33° 1. SAR MA 1.56678066044155 at 14/07/2006 00:22:26 Alt=69.6252927561115 So the timings now agree exactly. I guess we can say Lacrosse 3 flies in YVV mode and has a panel rotated at 33 degrees to the satellite y-axis. I'll have to run the VRML simulation and send you some screen shots. Flare prediction is now fully incorporated in the simulator. I had a chance to observe a flare last night too but my computer had a complete fit with only 10 minutes to go. 2 programs crashed, it wouldn't shut down and camera drivers were lost. cheers Phil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek@wanadoo.nl> To: "Philip Masding" <zen32156@zen.co.uk>; "satellite list" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org>; "Ted Molczan" <molczan@rogers.com>; "Mike McCants" <mmccants@ev1.net>; "Pierre Neirink" <pierre-neirinck@wanadoo.fr>; "Scott Campbell" <campbel7@hughes.net>; "Greg Roberts" <grr@iafrica.com>; "Bram Dorreman" <bram.dorreman@skynet.be>; "Bruce MacDonald" <macdonalddevizes@tiscali.co.uk> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 2:00 AM Subject: Nice Lacrosse 3 flare! > > Philip Masding gave me a heads-up because he had a prediction for a flare > of Lacrosse 3 (25017, 97-064A) for my site this night. > > His prediction was 00:22:22 UTC. Just before clouds came in I watched > Lacrosse 3 slowly flare to magnitude 0 at 00:22:27 +/- 1s UTC, so only 5s > off from his prediction. So this was definitelly cool! > > A photograph of the flare can be seen here: > > http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/3124/1395/1600/1307lac3.jpg > > - Marco > > ----- > Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 > Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL > > SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html > Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com > Atom RSS: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/atom.xml > e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl > ----- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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