Heavens above is a good service to use and as you found out, sometimes the magnitude estimates are no-where near what the sats appear to be. Havent seen --- "Pinizzotto,Russell" <ZZOTTO@mail.nwmissouri.edu> wrote: > Last night from my location in NW Missouri, I sawany sats here for a while... been too cloudy. Regards, Mark Hampton > Iridium 58 and Iridium 90 > flare within one minute of each other. Iridium 58 > was much brighter than > predicted, close to the max of -8. Iridium 90 was > significantly dimmer. > The Heavens-Above predictions on brightness were > exactly the opposite. They > did impress my son who is on spring break! > > Best Regards, > Russ > > 40.355N 94.968W 350m > > +-------------------------------------------------------+ > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with > 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to > SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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