Trails of a different kind

[Balance]

If anyone wants to exercise their inner Sherlock on this, I'll add a

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Long-exposure capturing the International Space Station while a DA42 Twinstar climbs and turns out of the airport

for those that give up or get impatient.


Taken locally and posted on FB today. There's clues in the pic (if you know what you're looking at!) but what sort of trails are these?

 

[Efftup]

I can see lots of sets of little beads on the trails on the right.

It must be an alien Lizard Rosary.

 

[benben]

Obviously a time lapse photo, but of what I have no idea, sure looks cool though

And now, after looking at the spoiler, I have to say ... Wow, that's neat

 

[Trailblazer]

I knew what the

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plane

was, but I didn't notice the

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ISS

at first!

And here is a photo I took of the latter last winter (Christmas Eve 2014 to be precise). Not the sharpest of shots, as I was holding the camera propped up on a car roof!

 

[Mick West]

You can plan to take similar photos when the [redacted] passes overhead at a high enough angle.

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http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/sightings/

 

[deirdre]

so basically the

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plane

trail is the

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lights on the wings

, right?

 

[Trailblazer]

so basically the

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plane

trail is the

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lights on the wings

, right?

Yes, I think those are the

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lights

on the

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wingtips

. They

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flash

in various

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patterns

. These ones seem to have

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four

quick

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flashes

then a longer

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pause

.

 

[Ray Von Geezer]

The really amazing thing that I don't think anyone has spotted is


Ray Von

 

[Trailblazer]

The really amazing thing that I don't think anyone has spotted is


Ray Von

You got

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busted by the

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Recent Activity list which showed that you had just

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inserted an

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image file

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[Trailspotter]

This long trail becomes really persistent

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