Re: Ir 14? & Ir 11 tum
Mir16609@aol.com
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 22:32:51 EDT
In a message dated 10/22/98 5:52:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
nixj@bellsouth.net writes:
> Is Iridflar a program? How do you Calculate Flar Angle and what is
> Ant?
Iridflar is a program by Rob Matson. A link to it may be found at:
http://www2.satellite.eu.org/iridium.html#programs
The Flare (Mirror) Angle discussion may be found here:
http://members.aol.com/skysatrj/
http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/Apr-1998/0175.html
and in the documentation of Iridflar.
Ant is one of the 3 Main Mission Antennae (MMAs).
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Iridium 14 and Iridium 11 seem to have similar flashing patterns. Here are
the flashes that I recorded for each this evening. They are probably not all
of the flashes but these I did observe.
Iridium 14, 22 October; all times UTC:
23.36:25, 23:37:15, 23:38:29, 23:38:45-50 (a short series of passes).
Iridium 11, 23 October, all times UTC
00:18:44, 00:20:12
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Iridium 56 made a nice -5 mag flare 20 degrees to the right of Polaris at 23
October, 00:09:37 UTC.
Cosmos 2106 (#20699) managed a -1 mag flare at 22 October, 23:27:40 UTC.
Cheers.
Don Gardner
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