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. > > ------------------------------ > Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com > 39.706d N 75.683d W > http://www.angelfire.com/stars2/projectorion > 4 hours behind UT (-4) > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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