Re: Iridium Flare Predictions On the Internet?

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> Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 16:09:11 -0700
> To: SeeSat-L@cds.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de
> From: Ron Lee <ronlee@pcisys.net>
> Subject: Iridium Flare Predictions On the Internet?
> [ ... ]
> whether an Iridium prediction service (like the Internet
> satellite prediction services) is viable and useful.

	This would be very useful, especially for the many of
	us who do not have access to the one and only platform
	on which the current prediction programs will execute.

	Viability depends on location of a fast server host on
	a high bandwidth connection.  That rules out someone's
	home PC, unless it's high-end, they're blessed with an
	ISDN or better line, they have a web server installed
	(or they're willing to install and maintain one), *and*
	they're willing to leave their machine online all the
	time.  Perhaps someone with the appropriate PC hw/sw
	set at their place of employment could get permission
	to host it?  The other alternatives would require the
	release of source code and porting it to a workstation
	class machine, and those alternatives have already been
	foreclosed.

	--Sue (worden@uts.cc.utexas.edu)

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