Re: Unknown Flare

Stephmon@aol.com
Sun, 31 Oct 1999 14:45:04 EST

In a message dated 10/31/99 2:04:58 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
finn@main.jetnet.ab.ca writes:

> I discounted the 2 Iridiums as the track of this unknown, which has been
>  ID'd by Don Gardner as Cosmos 2322 #23704 95058A. The object remained
>  visible for approx 45 sec from the time i noticed it until it went into
>  shadow. The Iridiums had a more N-S track while the one i saw was 
definately
>  an N-E track. My deck where i do my observing faces due East so the 
bearings
>  of objects i see are pretty accurate. Elevations i have trouble with. 

Ahh, once again, I let magnitude filtering trip me up (missed it by 0.1). 
Kudos to Don for bagging another UNID! Time to paint another satellite 
silhouette on the side of that monitor. ;)

> Thanks Stephen for offering alternates to the unknowns.
>  
>  Jari

It's a good exercise. This one has me thinking of adding a 'bearing' filter 
to my search controls...
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