Hi folks:
I was checking my video stills for meteor in 4-minutes stills and
came across a satellite trail that left a varying mag line.
Just before it disappeared in the upper right FOV it left a
iridium like flash. The flash must be pretty brief as it left a circular
bright dot franked by much thinner streaks on both side ( unlike iridum
flare that had gradual mag change)
Skymap indicated DMSP B5D2-2 a likely candidate. Too bad the 4-hour
tape ran out leaving the pc doing the frame grabs. ( I parallel out to
video recorder and pc recording)
Event : 9/18/2004, 05: 9:32(36)AM S'pore Time, near Yale 1143 at
az=186.3, alt= 51degree
rgds
ykchia
Singapore +8UT,
www.ykchia.com
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