Re: IR Flare Magnitude

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From: "Ulhas Deshpande" <dulhas2001@yahoo.com>
To: <SeeSat-L@satobs.org>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 7:36 AM
Subject: IR Flare Magnitude

>
>
> Hi
> Heavens Above predicted a mag -9 flare for my site Nagpur ,India ,at 
> 194253 (IST)today 02 Apr. How ever the actual flare was very weak ,about 
> the same as Regulus mag 1 .
> Is mag -9 really possible . HA also states that the max mag can be -8.
> Perhaps there was an error in computation
> Ulhas Deshpande
>
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Having used HA for ~12 years, I do not recall an IR Flare prediction higher 
than -8, looks like a typo.

Rob 

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