ah! That certainly nails it! with such a small angular size, it will be near impossible to see anything. Thanks, On 7/8/2013 1:19 AM, Thierry Legault wrote: > Patrice, at zenith (distance 800 km) an Iridium (larger dimension 4m) > has an angular size of 1 arc second. I'ts practically beyond the > reach of amateur telescopes, I know nobody able to obtain details on > a so small object, all the more that they are visible during a short > time during flares (the rest of the time they are very faint). In > comparison, the angular size of the ISS is about 60 times larger. > > regards > > At 00:15 08/07/2013, Patrice Scattolin wrote: >> Those are great but I am thinking of an image where you see the shape of >> the satellite, not images of a flare. I've seen the ISS in a scope and >> you clearly see the shape and a friend has attempted, apparently >> successfully, to image the satellite themselves. I wonder if anyone else >> tried that. >> >> On 7/4/2013 11:32 AM, Kevin Fetter wrote: >>> Video of iridium flare, I observed awhile ago. >>> >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PFUP5LPyuA >>> >>> http://www.astrobrock.com/images/iridflare/iridium47.jpg >>> >>> http://www.astrobrock.com/images/iridflare/iridium84.jpg >>> >>> Colour version >>> >>> http://www.astrobrock.com/images/iridflare/iridium84-2.jpg >>> -------------- next part -------------- >>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >>> URL: >> http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20130704/efc92171/attachment.html >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Seesat-l mailing list >>> http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Seesat-l mailing list >> http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > Thierry Legault > www.astrophoto.fr > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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