Iridium 38 (tumbling) has slowly (~10 s/day) overtaken Iridium 39 (Oct.20), which is flaring in the ESE, around RA 0h, dec +25 (at my latitude) This could still result in interesting photographs. For good video, you may have to wait until it overtakes the next operational one in the same plane, Iridium 40 around Dec. 08 Before that, it will be overtaken by Iridium 44 (tumbling) on Nov.1-2 separating by about 90 s/day, and if you are lucky Iridium 77 in engineering orbit (20 min/day!), but because of their differences in orbit plane and altitude respectively, they will not be so closely tracking as Ir39 is. Iridium 39 1 25042U 97069D 04297.14054665 .00000199 00000-0 64110-4 0 4975 2 25042 86.3965 152.6479 0002340 84.6305 275.5153 14.34218121364111 Iridium 38 tum 1 25043U 97069E 04297.14022551 .00000187 00000-0 59555-4 0 5420 2 25043 86.3965 152.5329 0002233 87.9305 272.2140 14.34392276364161 Iridium 44 tum 1 25078U 97077B 04295.96904494 +.00000129 +00000-0 +37532-4 0 07823 2 25078 086.3996 151.3154 0001773 010.2016 349.9216 14.36291818360009 Iridium 77 ? 1 25471U 98051E 04297.39496549 -.00000472 00000-0 -11493-3 0 5760 2 25471 86.5168 152.5395 0002409 82.2563 277.8925 14.54936162325265 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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