ROB MATSON wrote: > It would be interesting to see a global map of all bright flare tracks > on a month-by-month basis. Perhaps a large fraction of the constellation > is going through an eclipse season right now... --Rob I can't give you that, but I did use IRIDFLAR to calculate flares for Madison, Wisconsin (-89.3819 +43.073) for 365 days starting January 1, 1998. Here's a table of the results. This is for minimum flare elevation of 10 degrees above the horizon, sun 6 degrees below the horizon or better and flares of magnitude +1 or higher. Month Total AM PM MaxMag Jan 13 10 3 -8 Feb 9 7 2 -7 Mar 5 1 4 -3 Apr 12 5 7 -9 May 39 28 11 -8 Jun 17 12 5 -8 Jul 24 15 9 -8 Aug 27 23 4 -6 Sep 7 4 3 -8 Oct 7 3 3 -8 Nov 16 9 7 -8 Dec 7 4 3 -8 Note the wide variations in flares per month. There are also variations in intensity. There are more flares in summer even though the summer nights are shorter. Also note the preponderance of morning flares. I had felt something like this was going on, but I wasn't sure until I ran the numbers. Dave Mullenix