This evening I bagged a rich bag of objects. Amongst them was the Keyhole satellite USA 129 (96-072A), that treated me on a bright mag. -1 flare at 20;24:25 UTC (March 20) shortly after emerging from eclipse in Perseus. I captured the peak and descending brightness part on the image shown below.
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The light-curve is saturated near it's peak:
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posted by SatTrackCam Leiden at 01:54 on 21-Mar-2009
"USA 129 flaring"
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