> As much as I like Heavens-Above, I would rule against this > option for two reasons: first, the site provides ONLY the > flare peak time with no indication of the start time of the flare > which is equally as important (if not more) What? The flare starts a few seconds before its peak brightness, and it subsides to dim visibility a few seconds later (if you care to, you can track an Iridium flare naked-eye in light-polluted skies for many seconds, even over a minute. I've done it.). They can start rolling the tape ten to twenty seconds before the peak - and they'll get the whole flare. ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projectorion 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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