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Originally Posted by julianh72
Here’s a pretty impressive video of an Iridium Flare that was captured using a ZWO astro-camera on a tracking telescope mount, which was following the satellite rather than normal sidereal tracking. (I'm guessing they were using hand control tracking?)
They've tracked it for 3 minutes, so must have followed it pretty much from first appearance until it faded out. The satellite is brighter than most of the background stars that are sweeping past, until the flare itself, which happens at about 1’30” – WOW! 
A nice piece of capture work!
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A number of years ago when I was still fishing, I witnessed a flare just like the flare recorded on the ZWO camera. Without reference to anything other than rudimentary Astro knowledge, you can imagine how my mind was spinning!
Understanding what I saw that night was one of the major impetus that got me into this dreadful spending loop that is Astro. The Irridum Satalite owes me many thousands of dollars!
David