First daylight flare

Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Sun, 27 Sep 1998 16:55:49 -0400

Finally saw my first daylight Iridium flare!  It was yesterday at 
23:58:18 UTC (6:58:18 PM CDT).

Site name: Austin, Texas
Latitude:  30.30860  Longitude:  -97.72790  Altitude:   500.0 ft
Time Zone: UTC  -5.0 h

      Local    Local     Iridium          Sun    Flare  Max Flare  Ir
Day   Date     Time    Azm El Rnge N I  Azm Elv Mag MMA  Bearing    # S
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Sat 98- 9-26 18:58:18  347 66  525 A L  266   4  -8  L   0.8 mi W  31  
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Here's another URL for the AP story:

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/top_stories/ap_us/index.html

Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA