Rob Matson (ROBERT.D.MATSON@saic.com) wrote: > Over the years, a handful of these elusive double-flares > have been observed, and as the writer of IRIDFLAR I've > certainly taken an interest in trying to track down the > source of them. I wonder if we are in a "double flare season"! I saw a double flare from Iridium 36 tonight. As well as the expected flare (predicted magnitude -3.4, and may have been somewhat brighter) at 19:39:26 UT, the satellite flared again to almost the same brightness at about 19:40:30, close to Procyon. In fact, I had looked away when the first flare faded, to try and use Venus for a magnitude comparison, so I was most surprised, when I looked back, to see a second flare. I should be most interested to know what surface might have been responsible for the second flare. -- Rod Sladen, Beeston, Nottinghamshire, UK, 52.923N, 1.219W ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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