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 > > >