XPost: alt.astronomy, nl.wetenschap   
   From: sorry@noreply.nl   
      
   Op 11-6-2011 10:20, Skybuck Flying schreef:   
      
   > I recently saw a video of IIS... it has pretty big solar panels... it   
   > was near UK perhaps or perhaps not... I have seen it fly over once... it   
   > moves slowly... but still fast enough to notice the movement I think...   
   > it was also far less bright and further away from my location so it   
   > probably was not IIS...   
   >   
   ISS is the brightest satellite. You should have noticed it after the   
   flare was over. At an altitude of 400 km it is moving at an average   
   speed. Iridium satellites have twice this heigth, so optically they are   
   moving at half the speed.   
      
   > Anyway I think you on the right track... perhaps you could even figure   
   > out which satelite it was... that could be interesting.   
   >   
   > Any idea where to see "satelite" paths on the internet ?   
   >   
   Try the heavens above link I gave you before.   
      
      
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