Iridium Flare

[Robert Watson]

Hi All, Thought i'd post this ,Monday Night at around 10.10 pm looking south west i saw a very bright light coming from the south west it came right overhead and headed east. It was going at a good speed.Last night at 10.20 pm I had the dob in the garden for about an hour went out to check it as we had a million bugs here doing what bug's do when they've only got a short life span and the same bright light came from north east just as bright and going at the same speed, I did catch it on my video cam but not very well, i hope tonight i might catch it again I live in south down in N Ire so would like to here from N I if they seen this I'm 100% sure it was an Iriuium Flare:icon_eek:

[jgs001]

Sounds like the ISS Robert... West to East is going to be the ISS... Iridiums track N->S or S->N... the track isn't bright over the whole sky, just for about 15-20 seconds as it flares and dies away again.

if you register on heavens-above.com (it's free) you can get predictions for your location, and go back to previous days to check what it was you saw.

[richbyers]

Yes ive made that mistake too, the ISS can be extremely bright

rich

[Coco]

Yes It was the ISS, my neighbours were still having a BBQ as I was setting up, and pointed it out to them.... wooo arrrrgh was there reply...

Its difficult to image when the beers are thrust upon you..

Guy...

[richbyers]

yes ive noticed things look strangely more distant and blurry after a few......haha

[Robert Watson]

Sorry about the late reply i was just reading my thread and i should have said north west to east. As i said in my thread i got it on my cam and when you slow it down its just a ball not a H shape like the ISS .I hope it was the ISS cause that would be a first for me