Iridium Flare Photos - Part 2

Irid13
Iridium 13 flares at mag. -6 on Nov 8, 1998 at 17:24 UT from Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain at an altitude of 63 deg. and azimuth of 32 deg. Used Kodak Gold 400 with 50 mm lens at f:1.8 (photo by Jordi Aloy)
Irid7
Iridium 7 flares at mag. -4 on Oct 14, 1998 at 18:43 UT from Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain at an altitude of 59 deg. and azimuth of 13 deg. Used Kodak Gold 400 with 50 mm lens at f:1.8 (photo by Jordi Aloy)
Irid35
Iridium 35 flares at mag. -7 on Oct 15, 1998 at 18:37 UT from Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain at an altitude of 61 deg. and azimuth of 15 deg. Used Kodak Gold 400 with 50 mm lens at f:1.8 (photo by Jordi Aloy)
Irid62
Iridium 62 flare taken on July 30, 1998 at 18:38 (local time) near Happy Valley, in South Australia with a 30 sec exposure using Kodak PPF400 with a 50mm at f:1.8 (photo by Craig Richardson )
Irid13a
Iridium 13 flare taken on March 19, 1999 at 11:18 UT near Jones Orchard, Tennessee (35.32N/89.89W) with a 40 sec exposure using Kodak Gold 800, 35mm at f:2.8 (photo by Jim Nix)
Irid39a
Iridium 39 flare taken on March 19, 1999 at 01:04 UT near Jones Orchard, Tennessee (35.32N/89.89W) with a 45 sec exposure using Kodak Gold 800, 35mm at f:2.8 (photo by Jim Nix)
Irid52
Iridium 52 flare taken on March 17, 1999 at 11:30 UT near Jones Orchard, Tennessee (35.32N/89.89W) with a 30 sec exposure using Kodak Gold 800, 75mm at f:5.6 (photo by Jim Nix)
grp 5
Flare of five (Ir 2, 83, 84, 85, 86) taken on Nov 10, 1998 at 15:39 UT near St. Petersburg, Russia (lat 59.9N/lon. 29.1E) during 60 sec exposure using Kodak Gold 100, 52mm at f:5.6 (photo by Igor G. Rozivika). Further details on SeeSat-L.
Irid25
Iridium 25 magnitude -8 flare (2.6km W of flare center) elevation 49 deg., azimuth 54 deg. (NE) on Aug 5, 1999 at 20:31:42 UT in Germany at lat 51.62N/lon. 7.97E. 40 second exposure with a NIKON 24x36mm, f=60mm, 1:4, aperture 3.5, 400ASA. (photo by Juergen Giesen)
Irid 84/54
Iridium 84 (bright) and Iridium 54 were photographed August 12, 1999 at Grandview Campground in the White Mountains of California (near Bishop) at 8500 feet elevation. P1600 Kodak Professional, pushed to 1600 ASA, A Zeiss Ikon 35mm camera with a 250mm f/4 telephoto Zeiss lens attached to an Ed Byers 'Cam-Trak' for a 7 minute exposure (near alpha Pegasi). (photo by James W. Young)
Irid52
Iridium 52 was photographed August 13, 1999 at Grandview Campground in the White Mountains of California (near Bishop) at 8500 feet elevation. P1600 Kodak Professional, pushed to 1600 ASA, A Zeiss Ikon 35mm camera with a 135mm f/4 telephoto Zeiss lens attached to an Ed Byers 'Cam-Trak' for a 6 minute exposure (alpha Pegasi lower left center). (photo by James W. Young)
Irid52c
Iridium 52 on November 14, 1999 at 00:58 UT in Houston, Texas (29.75N/95.62W). Picture taken with a Fuji MX600-Z digital camera with no time exposure and little exposure control. Camera was fooled by having bright windows/streetlight illumination in the photo to satisfy the camera. (photo by Paul L. Sventek)
Irid49
Iridium 49 on November 28, 1999 at 22:35 local (+11 UT) from Australia at Pymble near Sydney (33.75S/151.15E). 120 second exposure at f/3.5 with Fuji Press 800. (photo by Geoff)
Irid67
Iridium 67 was photographed on July 1, 2000 at Paderborn, Germany (N51.72/E8.74) at 00:28 UTC. The camera was an Olympus C-2020 Zoom Digital using a 16 second time exposure. Settings: ISO 200, F2.0 with slight optical zoom (1.5x) Markus caught the flare by accident while photographing light pollution over his city. Deneb is the brightest star at the top (constellation Cygnus), Altair is the bright star in the lower right corner. The flare was caught maybe a second or two before its maximum before fading out. The view is almost directly south with the sat rising in the sky. (photo by Markus Mehring)
Irid54
Iridium 54 on June 11, 2000 at 23:35 local (Mid Europe Summer Time) from Neuenhaus, Germany (52.5N/6.97E). 20 second exposure with AGFA XRG 100. (photo by Christoph Lohuis)
Irid54
In a lucky shot, an Iridium satellite is photographed between the clouds from Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico (N18.1/W67.1). (photo copyright by Frankie Lucena )
Irid 56+86
This picture was taken on May 3, 1999 at 00:14 UTC at Neubrandenburg, Germany (13.3E, 53.6N). It shows flares from Iridium 86, NORAD 25528 (left) and Iridium 56, NORAD 25170 (right) near Kappa Ophiuchi. The brightness of both flares was estimated to be at -8 magnitude. (photo by Marko Stuhr)
Irid 51+37
Three weeks later on May 26, 1999 at 21:07 UTC Marko Stuhr got another chance to photograph a double-flare. The picture shows Iridium 37, NORAD 24968 (above)and Iridium 51, NORAD 25262 (below) near Epsilon Leonis at magnitude -7. The same camera was used with a 2 minute exposure on Koadacolor 400 film. The location was Greifswald, Germany (13.4E, 54N). The sun was almost 11 degrees below the horizon.

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