Last night Mike McCants and I caught the last several bright flashes of TVSat 1 (87-095A, 18570) at around 5:32 UT (June 23), with a flash period of about 24.3 seconds. I'm not sure of the magnitude (as seen in Mike's telescope under much moonlight), but it seemed pretty bright, maybe at least +5. From last September obs, its flash episode appears to be roughly 15 minutes later from night to night. We saw a predicted -5 flare of Iridium 6 at only five degrees above the horizon. Though very easy to see without magnification, it wasn't that bright -- but it's been hazy around here lately. It happens that at the BCRC location, there's only one "notch" in our horizon that goes low enough to see flares at that altitude. I used Iridflar to get the prediction. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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/sat/seesat/seesatindex.html
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