Sunday evening local time I observed my first Iridium solar panel flare from San Antonio, Texas. It was predicted -2 but actually was brighter than Mars, which was nearby. It was Iridium 30 at about 2:21:00 UTC June 17, 29.4000 north, 98.6600 west, 215m. Thanks, Rob! A night or two before that, Mike McCants acquired Gorizont 15 in his telescope. I'm too tired to say much more right now than it was faint (+10.5 at brightest I believe Mike estimated) but has an interesting flash cycle of just over 20 seconds with an asymmetrical secondary (10.m, 9.n, 10.m, 9.n). Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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