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re: (meteorobs) Iridium Flares - Important note to meteor ob...
-- [ From: Robert Lunsford * EMC.Ver #2.5.3 ] --
Wayne Wrote:
> Two other thoughts that popped into my head...There are other
satellites that
> do flare...on my last observing session, there was one that is about
mag +7,
> which flashed to between mag +3 and 0 every 12 secodnds or so... so
it was a
> series of widely space flashes. Any one of which could have been a
recorded
> as a point meteor, since the duration of the flashes was 2/10 second
at the
> most, had I not kept looking in the area and seen another flash 10
degrees
> away 12 seconds later. Rather fortuitous, methinks! And because the
non-
> flashing magnitude was below +7, it would not have been listed in
most visible
> satellite sources.
>
I have also seen these repeating satellites but the flash was much
longer, perhaps a full second or two long with motion evident.
Wayne, did you ever find your third point?
Bob