> > > Flare (glint) watchers - > This morning, I observed one of those daylight Iridium flares in which >the satellite is in the same part of the sky as the sun. That makes >them rather difficult to see. The Iridflar prediction: ... >saw the flare at about magnitude -4 and rapidly fading, and within 1 ... Though this might be difficult, it seems more difficult to get the magnitude ! Did you use reference stars or electronic devices, or measure a photographic track ? ;-) --------------------------------------------------------------- -- bjorn@tt-tech.se (office) b_gimle@algonet.se (home) -- -- 59.2237N, 18.2286E, 44 m http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- SeeSat-L / Visual Satellite Observer Home Page found at -- -- http://www.satellite.eu.org/satintro.html -- ---------------------------------------------------------------