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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