Last night was cold but clear. As I was a bit tired I didn't set up my telescope but instead took a number of photographs of the sky using my Canon DSLR mounted on a camera tripod. I used a selection of new and old lenses but was limited to 5 second exposures - otherwise the rotation of the earth would smear out the stars into lines as they appeared to revolve around the pole-star 'Polaris'.
When I downloaded the images to my laptop I noticed the tell-tale lines created by either faint meteors, satellites or space junk (bits of rockets,boosters and spent fuel tanks etc).
These two images show separate areas of the constellation Ursa Major- The Great Bear, with two different trails created by who knows what?
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