Mysterious Cloud
Taken by David Cartier, Sr. on February 20, 2014 @
30 km. east of Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 5D
Exposure Time: 30/1
Aperture: f/inf
ISO: 1250
Date Taken: 2014:02:22 18:16:15
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Taken from near Whitehorse , Yukon on the night of Feb. 20,
while doing Astronomy ... It appeared like a small naked eye "Orion Nebula", but rocket fuel dump immediately came to mind, as it was similar to something I saw 25 yrs. ago, which turned out to be fuel venting from a Soviet Spy satellite launch ( Kopsmos 1833 from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
When I first saw this it was centered over Almach (Gamma Andromedae), giving it a comet-like experience, but was obviously in rather low Earth orbit since the stars moved rather rapidly behind it.
I initially suspected a small weird patch of isolated Aurora, bt photography quickly disproved this theory.
WHAT was THIS ????
Photographer's website:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dcartiersr
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