Re: Iridium 33 - Bright Flashes

From: Stefano Sposetti (stefanosposetti@ticino.com)
Date: Sun Jun 14 2009 - 20:25:56 UTC

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    Simone,
    
    I observed such a flash the June 13 at 22:31:30 UTC, about -1 or -2mag, lasted 
    only 0.08s at RA=218deg	decl=50deg	
    My location is:
    Lat: 46.2314 N
    Long: 9.0240 E
    
    
    Best regards,
    Stefano
    
    satrack@libero.it wrote:
    > The Iridium 33 is still generating very bright flashes these
    > days. If I am not wrong, such flashes come from the second 
    > Main Mission Antenna I was looking for, however, I have no 
    > data enough yet to confirm it. I saw some of them, brighter 
    > than magnitude -4, west of the Cygnus. At my web page, 
    > I have added a sky map that shows where those flashes took 
    > place along with a few more details. 
    > 
    > Has anyone observed recently bright flashes from this satellite? 
    > 
    > http://digilander.libero.it/SATrack/
    > 
    > Best Regards,
    > Simone
    > 
    > 
    > 
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