This is my first post to the list..... I'm a very new observer, and was originally drawn to satellites by the idea of Iridium flares. I discovered that Iridium-10 was going to flare at 7:45pm EDT, 83deg AZ, with a magnitude here of -8.3. Yes, that's minus eight point three. According to my gps, my observing site was 1.7km from the flare center. The weather was perfect, the sun was low, I thought conditions were ideal. I looked straight up from 7:40 to 7:55, but didn't see the flare. I realize this is of extremely local interest, but did anyone else see it? Can anyone shed some light (pun intended) on this observation? I know that Iridium/Motorola is no longer maintaining these satellites, and flares may be more unpredictable? Forgive my ignorance.......but please help me do something about it. :-) Michael diLorenzo chisel@borg.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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