Re: difficult daylight flare

Bjoern Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Sat, 14 Mar 1998 11:43:16 +0100

>
>                                  
> 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 ?     ;-)



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