Iridiums 19 and 5, show and no-show

Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Thu, 07 May 1998 03:36:35 -0500

Wednesday evening (early May 7 UTC) I had Iridflar predictions for 
Iridium 19 (-6) and Iridium 5 (+0) less than two minutes apart.  
The sky was very hazy, with limiting mag. of maybe +3.  Both were 
predicted to flare a few degrees west of (above) Arcturus. Iridium 
19 outshone Arcturus by a few magnitudes, just as predicted (which 
was good, since I had gotten two bystanders to watch for it with 
me!)  None of us saw (one-power) any sign of Iridium 5.

Ed Cannon
ecannon@mail.utexas.edu
Austin, Texas, USA