[AZ-Observing] Re: Question about Iridium flare
- From: Andrew Cooper <acooper@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 22:21:04 -0700
Sounds exactly like an Iridium flare to me. You can go to a website
called Heavens Above, feed in your lat. and long. and get it to tell you
what events happened yesterday. You need to be fairly accurate on the
latitude and longitude as a few mile can make quite a difference on the
flare brightness. There is a selection for flares in the previous 48
hours on the main page, and once you get into the tables of flares you
can step back further with the "prev" selection at the top.
Andrew
http://www.heavens-above.com/
Andrew Cooper
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Peter Collingwood wrote:
> This morning at 06:00 as I stepped outside my apartment I was admiring Orion
> when I noticed what I thought must be Jupiter until I realised it was in the
> wrong part of the sky. It was in the North only a few degrees north west of
> Polaris and looked very Jupiterish with a yellow hue and at least Mag1. Then
> I realised it was moving due north and by the time it passed Polaris within
> a minute it faded abruptly to just barely visible. I watched it a couple
> more minutes until it was lost in the glare closer to the northern horizon.
> Was this an Iridium flare? Or possibly some other satelite? Is there a way
> to find out?
>
> - Peter
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