Targeted Lacrosse 4 (00-047A, #26473) again this evening. Observing conditions were poor, the skies were hazy. Some 10-15 minutes before Lacrosse 4 I saw a nive bright sat of about magnitude -1 to -2 low in the sky descending to the southeast.Lacrosse 4 made an Iridium-like flare, something which I have not seen a Lacrosse do before. Starting at about magnitude +2.5 when I started the exposure, it brightened and gave a brief flare of about magnitude +0.5 some 10 seconds after the end of the exposure. The onset of this was just captured on the image, the end tip of the trail on the exposure is suddenly bright and fat.This last point is some 0.2 seconds late relative to elset 05245.92208782
posted by SatTrackCam Leiden at 23:48 on 03-Sep-2005
"Flare of Lacrosse 4 (00-047A)"
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