Friday evening a few moments the high clouds cleared. Sunday evening I did a few obs. Due to summertime and having to get to work early, I couldn't stay up late. While waiting for some sats, I saw two Iridiums flare up just to the south of Cassiopeia. At first I thought it were airplanes, as Medemblik is in the approach rote to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. But no navigationlights were visible and no sound was heard. Checking with Iridflare I could determine that the first Iridium I saw on sundaynight was Iridium 52, 1998- 10 C, 25171, at about 22:05 UT. It flared to -5.8 according to the predictions. The second, about 5 minutes later, was Iridium 86, 1998- 66 B, 25528, flaring to -3.1; qiute a spectacular sight. 00- 6 B 00-06-02 21:40:02 LB 168.4 0.2 160 1.053 FF, 2->i 00- 6 B 00-06-04 21:11:07 LB 214.7 0.2 200 1.073 FF, 3->i Going up slowly 87- 20 B 00-06-04 21:43:04 LB 86.3 0.5 4 21.6 MM, 6->i 92- 30 J 00-06-02 21:21:54 LB 64.1 0.2 11 5.83 FF, 6->i Accelerating slowly 92- 76 B 00-06-04 22:19:18 LB 111.8 2.0 1 112 MM, 4->i 94- 85 B 00-06-04 22:27:56 LB 114.0 1.0 2 57.0 MM, 5->i 97- 28 C 00-06-04 21:25 LB S, 6 99- 39 B 00-06-02 21:03:36 LB 62.5 0.2 10 6.25 FF, 3->i Probably double period 99- 41 E 00-06-04 21:54 LB S, 4 Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst 52.767 N 5.09 E 2 m ASL ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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