At 07:09 AM 16/08/05, Fco. Javier Iruretagoyena wrote: >Hello to everybody > >I have seen an excellent pass of USA 129 a few minutes ago. The satellite >made a flash with amegnitude of -1. this is the first flash that i have seen >of this satellite. Is this frequent? Can we predict it? Its quite common , during the southern summer when I can see it, a flare to magnitude -1 often happens when the satellite is around the SSW direction, though the brightest flare was as bright as a mag -8 iridium flare, from a range of just over 1000Km. Nobody has to my knowledge formulated a predictive model. Tony Beresford (-34.9638, 138.6333E) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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