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Originally Posted by cookie8
Thanks for your reply astroron.It was 4:15am this morning. Altitude 47 degree in the west (far from overhead)travelling from south to north. This was my first iridium flare observation. I saw it brighten up but even at its max its still much dimmer than Sirius which was not far away.
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Vincent, at 47degrees and at that time of the morning it would be a fair way away from you and the sky would have been getting brighter, the -8 mag is at the center of the flair and that magnitude is usually when the flair is fairly close to Zenith, as it gets further from this point the brightness tapers off
Keep watching, I am sure you will see mag-8 soon
