Re: Iridium flares from the moon.

Floyd Weaver (fweaver@nbn.net)
Fri, 24 Oct 1997 01:36:50 -0400 (EDT)

	Let me clarify, I was thinking of seeing moon light glints from
earth off the Iridium sats, just like we do with the sunlight.

Floyd Weaver
3 miles north of Lebanon Pa.
40.389N 76.417W
http://users.nbn.net/~fweaver

On Mon, 20 Oct 1997, Robert Knight wrote:

> q:	"Is it possible to see flares from the Moon?"
> 
> A:	Theoretically, Iridium *glints* could be visible from the lunar
> surface -- but only at or near the New Moon (or, selenologically
> speaking, "Full Earth").
> 
> RK
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> RJ@RMATSC.RIEM.COM wrote:
> > 
> > Floyd Weaver said-
> > 
> >         >    Is it possible to see flares from the moon? My guess is that under the
> >         > right conditions it should be naked eye visiblity, but I am no authority
> >         > on the subject.
> > 
> >         Since the sun is 14 magnitudes brighter than the moon, my guess
> > is that a lunar Iridium flare would be about 14 mags dimmer than a solar
> > Iridium flare.  I'll leave the calculation to the student.
> > 
> >                         Randy
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