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Old 04-11-2013, 09:32 PM
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Exclamation Odd (double?) Iridium flare from Melbourne

Completely de-railed my exam revision for tonight
Was alerted to an Iridium flare by my phone at around 9pm and rushed outside to image it, and was surprised when (literally) just after it faded, another equally as bright flare occurred near the location of the initial one

From my understanding, satellites don't generally sit that close to one another in orbit. Can someone help make sense of this?

(Apologies for the out of focus image)

It was IRIDIUM 7 [+], if that helps at all.
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