Apparent satellite flares as seen in Artemis II photo timelapse

[jdog]

A reddit user put together a gif timelapse of the Artemis II photos showing the approach to Earth, and it revealed lots of little sparkly things in low orbit as seen from the nightside, most visible on the right and the left around the equator. (Bright thing on the right is Venus.)

They've generally been identified as satellites, presumably flaring, possibly Starlink?

If verified, might be a good example for showing people what flaring satellites generally look like. (I embedded the gif, but gifs are either not allowed or image compression has flattened it.)

It's been making the rounds on social media and got a mention on Hank Green's vlog:

 

[yoshy]

This website was the first thing I thought of when I watched that Hank Green video! I'm glad that he used the word "train" (can't remember if he said "starlink train", "satellite train", or something like that). Hopefully Google results will lead to discussions here so that people can learn that they are certainly satellites.