Iridium flare

[jmic4619]

Has anyone else noticed the METEOR streaking diagonally from upper right to lower left, starting just behind the flare as it fades at about 20-21 sec.? It's very faint. You may need a dark room to see it.

[Bradhahn14]

There was supposed to be a -8 here this morning just before 5 AM... I woke up earlier than usual for work so I could see it... It got no brighter than Venus :(

The flare center was supposed to pass .02 km to my east.

[batoniarz]

-7 mag today

[sciencoking]

there will be a -7 mag flare tomorrow... I CANT WAIT

[ParkourIvan]

Yeah, it had 18db increase(lower left) which is identical to magnitude increase of 4.5 making it look like... A MAG. -12.5 flare LOL makes sense

[sciencoking]

o_O that would be 20-30 times brighter than the moon

[ParkourIvan]

no moon is @ mag -12.2 so this should look kinda like the moon! Just as it really does

[sciencoking]

oops i thought it was around -6... sry :-)

[ParkourIvan]

This was huge !!!!

[TimAaron]

i got an iridium flare of -7 in 5 days and one -8 in a week im gunna try to see if i can read a newspaper while staring my back at it. It is possible on -7 and -8

[Chocoholicspazz]

They are supposed to last about 5 seconds.

[FromDimmuLand]

well, a cross, 2 thin white lines lasting as long as a finger snap .

'snap',like that, over and done...

[angeleyeschris]

flares are just light reflecting on the solar pannels they start off a star like moving point of light slowly brightning to..... say like bright as venus then fade to nothing then its gone. lasts about 10 seconds

[FromDimmuLand]

This looks nothing like the flares I've seen.

The ones I've seen are huge, fills half the night sky and last maby 0.5 secs. just like an camera flash.....

[Ergzay]

Flares are never that way. Don't lie. I've seen several and they are never like that.

[FromDimmuLand]

Hi, I dont lie, unless this is an filmed with nightvision, this looks nothing like the ones I've seen...I've seen them in the midle of the night like 03:00.... I ofcorse don't have picture.I never have my cam ready when smoking. :)

[Ergzay]

While I agree this is a somewhat dim flare. I've seen -8 magnitude flares and they appear as a VERY bright star, but they don't start causing glow in the sky around them. As what you describe is way more than a -8 flare.

[ParkourIvan]

under some circumstances they can get up to mag. -9.5 so...

[Oskarbadoskar]

3:00 in the middle of the night in what time of year?

[FromDimmuLand]

what time of year, ? not sure darling, but since i smoke outside, it might be summer, late summer. live in Oslo norway if you wonder. Why you want to know that for any ways ? :D

[guimasmilhafre]

Because on lower latitudes, sattelites don't reflect the sun at high night time like 3am because they are in the earth shadow. Unless the sun is in a position where it never gets too below the horizon like summer

[TSERSR]

Beautiful.

[raberidoom]

Cool, I have seen these many times but I only learned the cause of it today.

[Observer1975]

VERY nice!!!

[killbill105]

Wow, i have to wait until the 14th to see a bright flare like that, ive never seen one before becuase of bad weather and plus im 2 lazy to get up in the early hours lol!

I think your right though, that is a shooting star 20 secs in, not a bad video considering it was recorded 8 years ago!

[k8962c]

is it just me or is there a shooting star at 20 seconds, going from just above the flare and going down and right!

[bigeye54443]

bad quality!

[nervoso17]

great

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