I know some of you view sats with a lot of light pollution, but I am fortunate to have dark sky when the sky will cooperate. While away from home on June 23 while standing on a bright corner with traffic, lots of people walking around, and my soon to be 8 year old daughter turning a 10,000 pound round smooth stone in a water stream in front of a Ripley's Museum in the town of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, I determined the position of the flare by the position where our closest star had just set and estimating the elevation to be slightly above the building on the opposite side of the street. I had left my notes on flare times in the room and was working from memory on the time and azimuth/elevation and used my wife's watch to get the close time. The sky was still bright at 21.16.06 local time when Iridium 66 flared brightly for my wife and I to see. Observed from lat 35.714 lon -83.510 home Lat 39.4707 Lon -79.3388 Alt 2573 ft -4 UTC Home now and it is clear tonight, obs to follow. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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