Likely mag 0 flare from Trumpet 1

From: C. Bassa via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 19:45:00 +0200
An all sky camera in Germany captured a bright flare from a slow
moving object through the constellation of Virgo last night. The track
matches that of Trumpet 1 [23097/94026A].

The flare is visible on this star trails image in the bottom part,
just right of the middle:
http://www.locastan.de/allsky/startrails/startrails-20200518.jpg I can
also be seen on the movie created from the same image
http://www.locastan.de/allsky/videos/allsky-20200518.mp4. The flare
starts around 32 seconds into the movie, around 2020-05-19 00:00 (time
in CEST).

My all sky camera was unfortunately clouded out, but inspection of the
data from the previous night (May 17/18, 2020), shows a weaker flare
around 2020-05-17 22:07 UTC, also in Virgo. Check the video at
http://www.gemmaencees.nl/allsky/videos/allsky-20200517.mp4, around 15
seconds in the video.

The match to Trumpet 1 seems secure, given the a flare in roughly the
same location on the sky, even though the elements are about 26 days
old. Observers in Europe might want to keep an eye out for possible
other flares of Trumpet 1.

Regards,
   Cees
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