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Smoking

Most rockets leave a nice smoke trail to follow. A Hybrid running on Nitrous Oxide and a polypropylene fuel grain is almost smokeless. This makes it difficult to track visually. Does anyone have thoughts on tracking smoke for a hybrid rocket motor?  At the launch at Thunad down Under to 26,220 AGL it disappeared pretty quickly once launched from the pad.