At 07:05 25/05/01 +0100, you wrote: >Anthony - yes I think the flares in the past few days have been a few >seconds early. I use a travel alarm clock which receives the Rugby MSF >atomic time signal - I find this essential for satellite work now and they >only cost a few pounds! I don't have any other flare prediction programs so >have nothing to compare HA with. > This is what I posted on April 11 about an early Iridium flare: >I just saw a mag -4 flare from Iridium 38(97-69E). > >Predicted flare(with iridflar) was at 19:53:24 UTC from my location at >Bruges on April 11. > >However the predicted maximum was some 10 to 15s early. > There seems to be no reasonable explanation for it. Someone have a try ? Greetings, Tristan Cools t.cools@yucom.be Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS) Ryckevelde: 3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2 Brugge: 3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home) Primary site http://gallery.uunet.be/tcools/satimage/index.htm Mirror site http://www.satimage.bwgs.yucom.be/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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