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

From: Björn Gimle via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:36:48 +0200
Spare ? Iridium 98 has a marginally lower MM than 42 so it lags by about 1
s/day, and flares could "coincide" over large orbit sections for weeks.
Normal spares advance by 4-8 min/day, so they very soon catch up  with
another operational Iridium.
Den 25 sep 2014 16:48 skrev "Kevin Fetter via Seesat-l" <seesat-l_at_satobs.org
>:

> 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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