{"id":8184,"date":"2006-06-13T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-13T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/iridium-paroxysm\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T22:50:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:50:39","slug":"iridium-paroxysm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/iridium-paroxysm\/","title":{"rendered":"Iridium paroxysm"},"content":{"rendered":"

R\u00e9sum\u00e9: flash Iridium double simultan\u00e9, l’un des satellites d\u00e9passant la magnitude -8. POR Munich, 12 juin 2006 \u00e0 23h59.<\/p>\n

Yesterday evening, a flare<\/a> from Iridium 52 front antenna MMA0 was foreseen at POR Munich, in Virgo, -8 magnitude at 23:59:02 local time according to http:\/\/heavens-above.com<\/a> and -6.5 mag according to calsky.com. The latter source indicated that Iridium 98, a spare satellite with unknown status, might flare (also from MMA0 front antenna) to -6.2 mag one second earlier (23:59:01), only 3.5\u00b0 apart from the Iridium 52 flare, in Bootes.
\nBoth flares went beyond expectations, the brightest one from Iridium 52 exceeding -8 mag, and the other one being almost as bright. It was the most spectacular Iridium event I ever saw.<\/p>\n

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\nImage<\/em>: Canon EOS 5D, 60s exposure time, 85\/1.2 lens stopped down to f\/2.2, ISO 160. Image cropped to 20\u00b0 field of view.<\/p>\n

Jean-Luc Dighaye <\/p>\n\n\n

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\n Veuillez voter<\/span>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

R\u00e9sum\u00e9: flash Iridium double simultan\u00e9, l’un des satellites d\u00e9passant la magnitude -8. POR Munich, 12 juin 2006 \u00e0 23h59. Yesterday evening, a flare from Iridium 52 front antenna MMA0 was foreseen at POR Munich, in Virgo, -8 magnitude at 23:59:02 local time according to http:\/\/heavens-above.com and -6.5 mag according to calsky.com. The latter source indicated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astrophotos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15092,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8184\/revisions\/15092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/groupeastronomiespa.be\/astrogas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}