Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Observation 3.1

2/1/11 7:35 pm 

At about 7:35 I went outside of my house to prepare for the flare.  I looked in the southeast direction and located the constellation Orion.  I then located the two references stars, Sirius and Rigel.  I then waited for the flare and then a little past 7:40 a bright red light appeared in the sky and it continually got brighter for a few seconds and then quickly faded back out.  This phenomena, the iridium flare, was really interesting to see.  

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