Re: Missing flare
Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Mon, 13 Apr 1998 02:14:29 -0500
Leigh,
Below is the (brief format, English units) output I got from Iridflar.
I hope I got lat and long right, and I just guessed at the altitude.
Looks to me like it should have been there. (By the way, GSOC is set
to be pretty conservative about which Iridiums are considered reliable.
So this may be something new on Ir 28.) The verbose output predicted
-8.2 and said the center line was about two miles east of the location
that I used.
Ed C.
ecannon@mail.utexas.edu
Austin, Texas, USA
Latitude: 49.28330 Longitude: -122.96660 Altitude: 400.0 ft
Time Zone: UTC +0.0 h
Local Iridium Sun Flare Maximum
Flare Ir
Date Time Azm El Rnge N I Azm Elv Ang Mg MMA Latit.
Longit. #
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98- 4-13 4:22:19 086 57 568 D L 301 -12 0.1 -8 R
49.2861-122.922 28
> Leigh Palmer (palmer@sfu.ca)
> Sun, 12 Apr 1998 21:57:18 -0700
>
> I just looked for an Iridium flare predicted by GSOC as being -7 and
> didn't see it! ... The satellite was Iridium 28, which I should have
> seen at UT 04:22:20 13 April 1998 57 degrees up in the east. Would
> someone please check that out for me?
>
> CANADA 122d58m W 49d17m N