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Started by Legend, Sep 02, 2014, 07:17 PM

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Legend

Nope, Thats one phenomenon i would love to see.  but dont get out enough to really look.  i wanna move close to my work, and closer to a "night park"  our city has thats tucked between mountains and reserved for star gazing etc.
You need to use an app for Iridium flares since they're so rare yet highly predictable. There's a big piece of reflective metal on the old Iridium satellites and the "flare" is when they reflect the sun directly towards your location on the ground. I've only seen one and tbh it wasn't that amazing but it was still pretty cool and brighter than the ISS.

It's so crazy awesome being in really dark places. I really want to start taking my telescope when I go camping.