Iridium Flare

Date Observed: March 16, 2009 at 6:59 pm

Weather:
• Temperature: 39.8 ˚F

Sky Conditions: It was pretty cloudy out.

Object Observed: Iridium Flare

Location:
• Altitude: 50˚
• Azimuth: 186˚

Observations: I was looking across the cloudy sky and all of a sudden I saw a white spot that I hadn’t noticed before. It started getting brighter and brighter and then it got dimmer and dimmer and then it was gone. It took me a few seconds to figure out that I was actually observing an Iridium Flore because it was just a bright spot of light for a few seconds.