RE: Those iridium flares!

From: Kevin Grey (KGrey@dynamicsoft.com)
Date: Mon Oct 08 2001 - 17:10:21 EDT

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    What would be even more interesting is once we get enough PDA's networked
    wirelessly, you could potentially make a network of people observing
    satelites.  Of course you'd need quite a few people in the same area to take
    advantage of it.  It would potentially allow people to be alerted seconds
    before an observed passover...
    
    ~~K
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Jonathan T Wojack [mailto:tlj18@juno.com]
    > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2001 2:48 PM
    > To: SeeSat-L@satobs.org
    > Subject: Re: Those iridium flares!
    > 
    > 
    > Great story!
    > 
    > > P.S. I wonder if any one has ever coordinated a cell phone 
    > > communications
    > > relay in which one person then another let the other know when the 
    > > flare of
    > > one iridium satellite has reached him. For instance, I could tell 
    > > from the
    > > info collected at two sites input into Heavens-Above that a 
    > > particular flare
    > > moved about 20 miles in 7 seconds!  One person may say "Thar she 
    > > blows!"
    > > then a few seconds later the other person many miles away could do 
    > > the same.
    > > This could also work for the Space Station but at points in 
    > > different
    > > states. Just a thought.
    > 
    > That's an interesting idea.  If you could coordinate several 
    > observers,
    > and get some quality observations, and do this several times, with
    > mathematical analysis you probably could get a detailed spectral
    > "picture" of such a satellite.
    > 
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