Iridium flare alert

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chrisyeo
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Iridium flare alert

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Someone might be interested in catching this -7mag iridium flare tomorrow evening. It will be above the southern cross at about 45deg altitude.

Cheers,
Chris

From calsky: check calsky for more details:

Wednesday 13 April 2005
Time Object Event
20h22m55s Iridium 46 Flare from MMA1 (Right antenna) Mag=-6.8m Antliae
az: 144.2d SE h: 47.5 dist: 1016.0km
Flare angle: 0.1d center: 3.0km, az:289.0d WNW
Sat above: lon: 107.07d Lat: -3.21d alt= 781.8km
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AGMI
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Post by AGMI »

thks for the heads up... :k-happy:
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