Gerhard said, "An observer directly at the Pole could see satellites from all planes all the time throughout the day." This reminded me to send along what Dana at the South Pole just sent to me. It follows. "Not only that, we have -8 magnitude Iridiums all day today and -4 magnitude solar panel Iridiums all day today. I used Iridflar. It predicted the solar panel flares this time and today we had 2 flares every 9 minutes. One orbital plane was giving us -8 magnitude antenna flares every nine minutes near Sagittarius and another orbital plane was giving us -4 magnitude solar panel flares every nine minutes under Alpha Centauri. This insanity is still going on and I am going out after dinner to get more photos. The ones under Alpha Centauri come about 2 minutes after the one near Sagittarius. I am trying to get my friend who took the double flares last time to use his wide angle lens and take a 2 minute exposure of both flares. Those double flare photos are not mine that you mention for the magazine. I could take any because my digital camera only goes to a max of 15 second exposures." Wish I were there, for an hour anyway. Tom Iowa USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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