Very interesting. Something like this happened during the last few days of MIR. I was observing about 15 km away from a friend and I told him to run outside and see if he can catch it. He did, but in the few seconds it took to make the call and to get outside, MIR was already low in the horizon. Iridium flares would be more challenging to observe this way. I think we need to come up with a list of people on the flare path and organize days before the event. It would also help if we use a broadcast network (VHF/CB/SW ?) in addition to cell (person to person) communications. Sigurd 10/9 -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Grey [mailto:KGrey@dynamicsoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 5:10 AM To: 'Jonathan T Wojack'; SeeSat-L@satobs.org Subject: RE: Those iridium flares! 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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