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When I was in school two decades ago I wrote a program to scrape Iridium Flare passes from HeavensAbove, filter on time and magnitude, cross-check with cloud co
by rkagerer 4y ago
When I was in school two decades ago I wrote a program to scrape Iridium Flare passes from HeavensAbove, filter on time and magnitude, cross-check with cloud coverage from Weather Underground, and put good viewings in my calendar with a vibrate alarm a few minutes in advance (which synced to my Palm Pilot). It felt precognizant to walk out of a lecture and be like, "Hey look up at the sky right over there!" and we'd all see the flash.