At 12:42 1/10/01 , Jeffrey Simpson wrote: >Question about the flashes: >Are they like the Iridium flares, which you can see coming (they brighten up >to the brightest point and then fade) or are they isolated flashes the come >out of nowhere? strobe flashes, Jeffrey, at the planned roattion rate of 5 degrees/second (= 10 degrees /second for reflection), the half degree image of the sun would take 1/20 second to pass your eye. More like the strobe like flashes one sees occasionally from the tumbling iridiums. >PS I'm going to try and see the three other satellites of the Kodiak Star >launch if the weather is fine. You will need 20x 80 binoculars or better I think. Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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