SpaceX Starlink 25 Train 2021-05-08

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The Starlink 25 train of satellites. Starts top left and they disappear into the Earth's shadow a little left of center. This group is all 60 satellites from that launch. The 'trails' are just an artifact of the noise reduction algorithm in the camera.
Bonus satellite starting at 00:56 at the top, slightly right of center. I'm fairly sure it's Starlink-1293 which was launched March 18th 2020 on Starlink 5. It moves down till it disappears behind the trees, though it's very dim by then and hard to see. If you're wondering why we can see that one move further east than the train of Starlink satellites, the answer is orbital altitude. Starlink-1293 is at it's operational altitude of 547km, where the train is still moving up, and is currently at 294km.

The bright object moving in a similar path is probably a plane, since there's nothing on the satellite trackers about anything that bright being in there at that time. The flashing object later on it obviously a plane.

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