Unknown Trail (Space Debris Re-Enter?)
Taken by Jan Curtis on December 11, 2022 @
Oracle, Arizona
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While shooting for early Geminid meteors, I watched this possible space debris entering the atmosphere while exposing at iso 800 for 30s with my GoPro 10. The two short trails at left and center are aircraft but the diagonal faint trail from upper right the lower left appeared in only this one frame. A similar but fainter event occurred 5 minutes early in approximately the same location and orientation.
This object is not a jet contrail since I lasted for less than 30s without typical broadening of the train and no other aircraft showed any signs of contrail formation. The moon is seen rising at center.
I was fortunate to have captured this event with a Fujifilm X-T3, iso 5000 with an exposure of 15s, at focal length of ~24mm:
I did not view this directly since I was recording automatically in time lapse mode.
The last two images occurred at 8:30PM with the same cameras and exposures.
Photographer's website:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/79387036@N07/52559972325
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