Re: "Whopper" or "monster" flare

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Floyd Weaver
3 miles north of Lebanon Pa.
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On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Ron Lee wrote:

> At 23:56 97/9/23 -0400, you wrote:
> >I'm happy to report having seen a monster Iridium flare Monday night!  
>                                    ^^^^^^^
> 
> Ok folks, this is bugging me.   At first they were "whopper flares", now
> we have "monster Flares".   Are they the same or is it a "whopper" up to
> magnitude -4 and a "monster" if brighter than that?

  I am behind on my mail and have not yet read any replies that may have
come in about this message. On Saturday a few friends and I were out
looking for sats, when one of the spotted a bright flare. I have not check
out which sat it may have been, but I think it was an Iridium. It was in
the same area of the sky some of you others have been spotting the flares,
and it passed just a few degrees west of jupiter. I did not get the best
look at the flare, but the point I wanted to mention was, the person that
first spotted it said it almost blinded him!

Floyd

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