My face is red, and I must offer apologies to Jeff and all! There's no doubt that Iridium 911 is a very nicely flashing object (which I just saw a few minutes ago), but whatever I saw Thursday evening (local) was not Iridium 911. The flashing object was northbound, and Iridium 911 is making southbound passes over here right now. Due to being tired and/or in a hurry when I was trying to figure it out, I failed to register Ir 911's direction of travel. I actually had another nagging doubt last night, that the object I saw was too low in the sky to be Iridium 911. So since I can't find any other satellite in the right place at the right time going the right direction, here's a question to aeronautical specialists out there: do any aircraft strobes (white) flash at 50 cycles/minute (i.e., every 1.2 seconds)? By the way, Iridium 911's period a few minutes ago appeared to be something like 7.5 seconds, but I got some subcycles on the order of two or three seconds. 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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