Wednesday 6 August 2008

A few flares

The weather has been rubbish for Astronomy for the past week. So no chance to get out and try for my next AstroPhoto target M31. Ho Hum. I've managed to get a few flares though...

Iridium 90

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Iridium 10

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Iridium 83 - this was supposed to be part of a double flare image. The predictions from Orbitron showed 2 flares within 10 seconds of each other and less than 10 degrees apart. Of course the clouds only parted enough to show one of them, the other would be lower down and on the right of the one you can see.

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The later mag -8 flare could only just be seen through the clouds and got washed out in the orange reflected light.

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