Thread: Iridium Flares
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Old 28-01-2011, 09:41 PM
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I'm in Canberra at the mo, and just caught the 21:28:54 flare which both HA and Sputnik! predicted, it was bang on time. However, HA shows another one tonight at 23:04:49 which Sputnik doesn't mention.

Interestingly, with the pass just gone, I saw the satellite about a minute before the flare, it did two instantaneous flashes, VERY bright, about 10 seconds apart. I didn't know it was the same sat at the time, but when the flare came, it was travelling on the same path and at a speed which would have put it at the places of the two bright flashes.

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Jason.
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