Yesterday in the daytime, it was clouded and rainy. It cleared marvelously in the evning though. I detected the clearings too late to capture the evening Keyhole passes, but captured a number of other objects: IGS 1B (03-009B, a defunct Japanese SAR), Lacrosse 2 (91-017A, a SAR as well), the NOSS 3-3 Duo (05-004 A & B), and two HEO objects: USA 184 (06-027A) and the USA 144 decoy (99-028C) again.
The image below shows the USA 144 decoy again, and is a somewhat better picture than that which I posted in a previous post:
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USA 184 was imaged as well, and for the first time by me. It showed up bright. It is probably a Trumpet-class ELINT satellite. It is in a Molniya orbit (see below) and at the time of imaging was at an altitude of 28560 km, over Northern Europe.
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Below is one of the images, plus an animated GIF of all five images, showing the movement perpendicular to the night sky rotation:
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posted by SatTrackCam Leiden at 20:22 on 26-Aug-2009
"USA 184 Trumpet (?) ELINT and more"
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