An experienced observer reported the following last night (Apr 21 EDT) observing from deep southwestern Virginia, USA. >At about 8:30 p.m. Eastern time, as I walked up the driveway I saw >what appeared to be two Iridium flashes of identical brightness (-3 mag., >I'd guess), as one faded, another came into view, on the same apparent >track, and about 5 degrees in the sky behind the first one. Az = 170d; >Alt. 20d. Observer location: Lat 36.750 Long 81.744 elevation 2000ft Heavens-Above nor a relaxed criteria Iridflar found anything, but Quicksat finds the following: 36.750 81.744 2000. Glade Spring, VA 2000 8.5 20 F F T T F *** 2001 Apr 21 Sat evening *** Times are PM EDT *** 2054 556 25040 Iridium 41 11 5.5 20 30 53 .0 20 21 46 8.0 3 2 487 467 1075 .8 86 1725 65.1 20 31 56 .0 29 32 53 7.2 3 2 487 451 878 .9 76 1535 62.0 20 32 59 .0 38 51 65 6.5 3 2 487 430 731 1.0 62 1356 50.3 20 34 2 .0 44 81 C 88 6.0 3 2 487 406 668 1.0 45 1251 30.2 20 35 5 .0 40 113 111 6.1 3 2 487 377 712 1.0 33 1212 8.0 20 36 8 .0 30 133 126 6.6 3 2 487 344 846 1.0 32 1148 -10.1 20 37 11 .0 22 145 133 7.3 3 2 487 308 1036 .9 36 1133 -23.1 25471 Iridium 77 ? 14 5.5 20 31 41 .0 20 23 48 7.8 1 2 444 421 998 .9 84 1716 63.9 20 32 38 .0 28 34 55 7.0 1 2 444 405 819 1.0 74 1534 60.2 20 33 36 .0 37 52 67 6.3 1 2 444 386 687 1.1 60 14 2 48.6 20 34 33 .0 42 81 C 88 5.9 1 2 444 363 630 1.1 43 1259 29.3 20 35 30 .0 38 111 110 6.0 1 2 444 337 669 1.1 31 1220 7.9 20 36 27 .0 30 132 124 6.4 1 2 445 308 789 1.0 30 1155 -9.7 20 37 25 .0 22 143 132 7.1 1 2 445 275 961 .9 35 1138 -22.4 Iridium 41 and 77 were both deep in the southern sky over southwest Virginia at 8:37pm EDT. If Heavens-Above nor Iridflar could find a MMA flare, what caused it? Is this an example of a non-MMA flare? Two flares at that? Paul Sventek sventek@attglobal.net psventek@netscape.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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/seesat/seesatindex.html
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