I would like to announce to the group that we have made a number of improvements to the GSOC Web site's Iridium flare predictions. Here are the new features; A page has been added giving the Iridium flares which have occured over the last 48 hours. This has been requested by several people who wanted to check out chance observations made the previous evening. There are now a total of 3 pages giving flare predictions for the last 48 hours, next 24 hours and next 7 days. In the future I will be adding the option to specify a time range (but with a restricted duration, of course). Each flare prediction page now has two new columns, and the mirror angle column is gone. The new columns are the distance to the nearest "ground zero" and the magnitude of the flare at ground zero. The idea is to allow people to decide whether or not it's worthwhile making the journey. Not all flare centre lines intersect the Earth's surface, and so there not always a ground zero, which you will see indicated in these cases. Clicking on the time of the flare will bring up a new page giving more details of that particular flare, including the coordinates of ground zero, and a small map showing where it is relative to your home location. The map also shows the track of the flare centre along the ground, and which direction it is moving (usually N-S or S-N). On 19th May, 1998 Tony Beresford wrote: > I think Chris Peat can confirm the GSOC predictions filter out all satellites > which dont have MM=14.342, so it wouldnt have considered iridium 5. We have now modified our selection criteria, and include a flag which is manually set to indicate a valid flarer. We no longer use the MM as a guide. I have cleared the flag for Iridium 5 so that it will not appear in the predictions. If I get more positive reports that it is behaving properly again, I will put it back into the list. Chris Chris Peat, Anite Systems Currently working at the German Space Operations Centre near Munich