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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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