Okay, with the coming super-bright full Moon, it's time for Rob to let us know about the super-bright lunar Iridium flares that we can expect and should look for! :-) (By the way, Rob, seems I saw a message that mentioned Iridflar.exe version 1.7. Did I miss a release? I'm still using version 1.65.) Here are two more good articles (IMHO) regarding the full Moon later this week: Dec. 16, Earth & Sky, "Solstice Moon Madness" -- http://earthsky.worldofscience.com/Features/News/solstice-moon.html Dec. 19, Associated Press article on Space Today site, "Millennium's final full moon to include unusual combination" -- http://www.flatoday.com/space/explore/stories/1999b/121899a.htm I tried a different (pretty bad) method of observing this morning. I didn't print out predictions; I just had them on my PC and went outside and looked, came back in, etc. Finally enough were going to come too close together and during a short break I wrote a few of them down! My favorites were UHF F/O F2 Rk (22788, 93-56D), a nice one-power pass, timed flash period at 7.74; a very nice, bright pass of EGP/Ajisai (16908, 86-61A); Cosmos 1005 (10860, 78-45A), predicted +3.0 but quite a bit brighter; a very bright (-6 pred.) flare from Iridium 65 (25288, 98-21D) -- even though I almost missed it behind the bare limbs of some trees; DFH-3 2 Rk, a CZ-3 (97-21B, 24799) with flash period of 3.00 seconds, really fast and very bright; and finally, COMETS H-2 Rk (25176, 98-11B) with solar elev. of -6 degrees -- thought I was going to miss it, but I found it as it went near the zenith. Observing location was 30.3086N, 97.7279W, 150m. Now, since I've been up all night (due to, after Mike McCants and I observed last night, trying unsuccessfully to see ETS/Kiku 6, a Molniya, and some flashing geosynchs), I think I'd better sign off for a couple of hours! Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/satellite.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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