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Old 30-05-2016, 02:07 PM
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Plane, satellite or shooting star?

Can someone help me identify this? I was doing some widefield long exposures in my backyard last night and one of the frames had this. I was inside when it happened so didn't see it.

I'm guessing it's not a plane because there's no strobes or different colours; also the main yellow line stops and the green one continues. Bit weird. It's going more or less due east/west; the top of the image is NW which makes me think it can't be a satellite catching the sun's reflection; if it's going from bottom to top it stops shining as it gets closer to the sun.

So, any ideas?
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