Re: help with id

From: Björn Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Date: Thu Mar 04 2004 - 01:20:02 EST

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    No obvious satellite, but Venus was at az 262, alt 26 at 1900 local.
    
    Interestingly, there are some Iridium flares after 1900, but not bright last
    night -
    superbright tomorrow though (in the N)
    
    
    70  2004- 3- 5 19:03:25.0 012 43 11h28  80.9  1.7 41.45 -71.57
    70  2004- 3- 5 19:03:39.6 011 39 13h17  81.2 -7.7 42.27 -71.51 0.6 E
    70  2004- 3- 5 19:03:56.0 010 35 14h51  79.6  1.9 43.19 -71.44
    
    
    
    
    > I was helping an 8th grade neighbor find the Pleiades tonight --- a few
    minutes after 7 --- when she, her mother & I all saw this
    > HUGE silver flare --- low moving from the west to the southwest.  Any idea
    what it might have been?  It was about 1/2 as big &
    > bright as that awesome one we saw at WHS a couple of years ago.
    
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