Re: S CA Friday: 3 Iridum flares

Mir16609@aol.com
Fri, 15 Oct 1999 20:34:18 EDT

In a message dated 10/15/99 4:57:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mhanning-lee@syagen.com writes:
 
>  At 19:40:39 I should see a nominal -1 mag flare from Ir 85 T

About an hour ago (23:30 UTC 15 October) Iridium 85 made a visible pass here. 
 It's in a slow tumble - probably a rotational period of 3-5 seconds.   Don't 
expect a flare but you may see some 1x flashes.  

Iridium 19 made a nice -8 mag flare at 00:06:40 UTC 16 October.  Hopefully 
the photo will be OK - my first attempt.

Cheers
Don Gardner  39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL
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