Hi folks:
While searching for meteors 4/12 on video frames, I came across a
satellite trail ' - - . - ' which at first look like the signature
of a fast meteor with the exception of a single star-like dot in
between 2 dashes. Closer inspection revealed a mag drop off just before
the dash gone to invisble. Today I review the tape confirming the
culprit to be a slow moving sat with magnitude variation. Due to the
narrow FOV only 3 cycles were seen.
After a few attempts on Skymap pro managed to narrow the candidate
to CZ3A R/B 22997
CZ3A R/B 22997 seems to have a steep dive into below visibility and
also a short cycle flare in between the cycles left a star-like
image in the 2-minute per video still ..
Is there a light curve for object like this? Or do i need to go
through all the ppas files?
Thanks
rgds
ykchia
www.ykchia.com
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