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pith:NB2ZLYQ6

pith:2022:NB2ZLYQ6JFFS5SPPIT64D54VCB

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The Method of Visual Satellite Photometry

Anthony Mallama

arxiv:2208.07834 v3 · 2022-08-16 · astro-ph.IM

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Characterization of Starlink Direct-to-Cell Satellites In Brightness Mitigation Mode

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First computed	2026-07-05T11:02:08.336819Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

687595e21e494b2ec9ef44fdc1f795105a84b631fb258e43881b18d76a2221c3

Aliases

arxiv: 2208.07834 · arxiv_version: 2208.07834v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2208.07834 · pith_short_12: NB2ZLYQ6JFFS · pith_short_16: NB2ZLYQ6JFFS5SPP · pith_short_8: NB2ZLYQ6

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NB2ZLYQ6JFFS5SPPIT64D54VCB \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 687595e21e494b2ec9ef44fdc1f795105a84b631fb258e43881b18d76a2221c3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
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    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2022-08-16T16:33:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94bc378cb926f5cbeb7873822466ce6e3ed977ae243a96446aa260a377477d62"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2208.07834",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}