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Old 26-03-2006, 01:28 AM
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Why do you think it's not a satellite? There's no way of judging the relative speed of a star trail compared to a satellite trail on a still image. My bets would be a low orbit satellite. The taper in brightness of the trail would suggest Earth shadow involvement.

It's not a geostationary satellite Ving. They would only show as a faint dot with a 50mmm lens.
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