Iridium Flares for Maryland

Mir16609@aol.com
Thu, 3 Sep 1998 11:11:25 EDT

Hello all.

I generated the following interesting output from Iridflar:
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Site name: Columbia, MD
Latitude:  39.17960  Longitude:  -76.84190  Altitude:   111.5 ft
Time Zone: UTC  -4.0 h

      Local    Local     Iridium         Sun      Flare     Maximum Flare  Ir
Day   Date     Time    Azm El Rnge N I Azm Elv  Ang Mg MMA Latit.  Longit.  #
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Thu 98- 9- 3 20:51:10  358 27  910 A L 293 -14  0.3 -5  L  39.162  -76.742 29 
Fri 98- 9- 4 20:44:56  358 29  870 A L 292 -13  0.1 -7  L  39.173  -76.804 32 
Sat 98- 9- 5 20:38:42  358 31  835 A L 290 -12  0.0 -7  L  39.178  -76.830 58 
Sun 98- 9- 6 20:32:30  358 33  801 A L 289 -12  0.1 -7  L  39.174  -76.804 55 
Mon 98- 9- 7 20:26:16  358 35  772 A L 288 -11  0.1 -7  L  39.173  -76.793 30 
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After a flare "drought" of about 2 months, Central Maryland will enjoy 5
bright flares on 5 consecutive evenings.  All will occur at about the same
time and at about the same location in the sky - just below Polaris.
Hopefully the weather will cooperate.

Cheers
Don Gardner
Homepage: http://members.aol.com/mir16609/
76.8419 W, 39.1796 N,  34m ASL