I came home from a business trip during the first expected flare Friday, left the taxi just in time to see the second one at 19:45 UT, and missed the third at 19:54 because of accumulating clouds. My friend, Bengt Ottosson, who saw one flare from Iridium 6 (?) on 07.August, saw all three. Old reports, Aug. 21 and 26, have been amended. NORAD date time Dir aI eI aM eM aS eS Phs Dur Mag Obs xxxxx dd-mm-yy hh:mm:ss x xxx xx xxx xx xxx -xx xxx tt Sn.n II 24794 07-08-97 19:58:xx S xx xx 77 54 318 -6 xx x -2 BO 24839 21-08-97 20:27:00 S 28 30 73 41 324 -13 74 <20 -1.0 BG 24839 21-08-97 20:27:20 S 33 33 73 41 324 -13 81 <20 -1 BG 24836 26-08-97 19:57:2x S 42 36 73 40 317 -12 93 5 3 BG 24841 26-08-97 20:06:4x S 43 41 75 46 319 -13 96 >6 -1 BG 24842 1-09-97 19:38:52 S 45 46 76 50 312 -12 99 >1 1? BG 24837 1-09-97 19:40:01 S 55 50 76 50 312 -13 106 >3 0? BG 24869 19-09-97 19:35:xx S 4x 3x 70 33 310 -19 10x 8? x BO 24871 19-09-97 19:44:4x S 44 34 72 38 312 -20 103 8? 0 BG 24872 19-09-97 19:54:xx S 5x 4x 74 43 314 -21 10x 8? x BO BG = 59.2237 N , 18.2286 E, +44m BO = 59.322 N , 18.455 E, +15m I have used SkyMap to find the Sun position and Phase. Since I have the track displayed, and (nearly) correct time, I just get the F4/F2 menu and type 'Sun', to get current aS/eS. Back to the previous position (or restore saved .cfg) I get aI/eI from the cursor, and with SkyMap 6.0 beta I have got a Track query which gives 'the phase angle (measured from satellite to observer to sun), ' (and other things). Ron's mail Sep.19 does not describe where Phs is measured - this must be clarified ! In QuickSat 'The Phs value is the sun-object-observer angle'. In Ron's table, BD and LB appear to use the observer angle, EL, JR, PM and SW the satellite angle. BD's mail (http://www2.plasma.mpe-garching.mpg.de/sat/seesat/hyper/0482.html) also uses satellite angle ? When we agree on a definition, replace non-conforming Phs by 180-Phs. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- -- bjorn@tt-tech.se (office) b_gimle@algonet.se (home) -- -- 59.2237N, 18.2286E, 44 m http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- SeeSat-L / Visual Satellite Observer Home Page found at -- -- <a href="http://www.satellite.eu.org/satintro.html">http://www.satellite.eu.org/satintro.html</a><br> -- ------------------------------------------------------------