>... > What to do: get Rob Matson's iridflar program which predicts lunar > flares. Set it to predict all flares brighter than mag 13 for the next > month or so. > If it predicts a flare at mag 13, then adjust the longitude to find > where the flare is brightest & drive there. > See where the flare occurs in the sky e.g. az 267 degrees elevation 35 > deg. > Use your favorite planetarium program to see where that is in the > starfield, e.g. 2 degrees N of a particular bright star. ... It seems you are missing two points in IridFlar output: If you select 'F Output file:' you will also get 'Bearing' - in the sample below ' 7.0 E ' which tells you where to go to find the center line. In the 'F' menu, select 'F3 File output mode: Verbose' and you will get RA/dec - 21h49 36.6 below. Depending on how far you want to drive, you could set 'F8 Magnitude...' to 16 or so. And, to find more accessible locations, set 'N Number of output lines per flare: 3' and use the Lat/Long output - the flare tracks can deviate substantially from S-N-S. (In this case it didn't: 59.6353 18.7820 59.2648 18.7440 7.0 E 58.9569 18.7134 ) 51**?*2001- 9-30 1:33:33.1 261 49 21h49 36.6 965.6 D Lun 17 -31.8 F 0.33 9.6 7.3 8.7 59.2648 18.7440 7.0 E ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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