Butthe show might not be good = Iridium 64 pass tonight, double flare next week.

From: Kevin Fetter via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:47:57 -0700
Greg wrote


http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Sep-2014/0194.html

> While checking for flare passes, I see there's a unique (?) opportunity at my location on the 30th, as Iridiums 42 & 98 will flare just 22 seconds and 1 degree apart in about the > same spot in the sky near Polaris

Problem is, one of the iridium's is a spare sat, so it could have a bad attitude.

Once I was to have 2 iridium close together and gve a nice show, not. The spare sat, didn't even get close to predicted mag,

So just a warning, just incase the show isn't so good.

Kevin


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