Re: Iridium 20

Brian Hunter (bkh@chem.QueensU.CA)
Fri, 8 May 1998 11:38:45 -0400

If iridium 27 is anything to go by, it is worth watching again after
culmination.   Iridium 27 will flash for awhile, the flashes fade to
nothing,  then begin to pick  up again.

A bit of idle speculation  here:  It may be that the two sets of flashes are
from different MMA's.

BKH

Brian K. Hunter,                              Department of Chemistry
Professor                                        Queen's University
bkh@chem.queensu.ca                   Kingston, Ontario
(613)-545-2620                                Canada   K7L 3N6

-----Original Message-----
From: brixham <brixham@rmplc.co.uk>
To: SeeSat-L@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de
<SeeSat-L@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de>
Date: Friday, May 08, 1998 11:35 AM
Subject: Iridium 20


>The skies cleared late last night so I attempted to spot Iridium 20.
>I saw two -3 flashes about 1 second apart but that was all. At 23:39:10 UT.
>Looking at the quicksat output that would have been nearly at culmination.
>I may have missed a previous flash whilst finding the sat but there were no
>flashes visible afterwards.
>
>***  1998 May   8  Fri morning  *** Times are AM BST  ***  2123  4 2
>
> H  M  S  Tim Al Azi C Dir  Mag Dys F  Hgt Shd  Rng  EW Phs  R A   Dec
>24871 Iridium 18                  13
> 0 39 13   .0 42  76 C  88 21.1   1 8  488 195  686  .8  83 1926  38.7
>
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