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Old 17-01-2014, 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by astroron View Post
Very rare to see two Iridium satellites in a night in the one location but possible.
Some of the Iridium satellites have a failover satellite in an almost identical orbit. It isn't that uncommon to get flares from both of them within a minute.

If you have CdC (Cartes du Ciel) with a current set of TLEs it can predict Iridium flares for your location. eg:
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