Last night besides Iridflar predicted side-by-side "twin" negative magnitude flares of Iridiums 77 ? and 39 just a few degrees from Polaris, there also was a prediction for a -1 penumbral flare of Iridium 63. In the last couple of years I remember only a couple of penumbral flare predictions. All three flares were pretty much as predicted. The penumbral one got bright and then disappeared almost immediately -- not your usual Iridium flare. The other two were separated nominally by only four seconds, and they did appear side-by-side just above and to the left of Polaris and traveled that way at one-power visibility for at least 15 to 20 seconds. Poor sky conditions did not allow me to see very many other satellites last night, but there was one very good flash from Iridium 44 (25078, 97-77B), and I did with binoculars see OCS (26062, 00-4B) "occult" epsilon Leonis. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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