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By j7uy5 on October 3, 2007.

This is a photo of star trails over the
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National Wildlife Refuge
.  The anomaly in the upper
left is an "
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," a reflection from
an 
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title="Iridium (satellite)">Iridium
communication
satellite.




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Flickr.  His Flickr page (click the photo) has an explanation
of the phenomena in the photo, as well as a link to the full-sized,
noncompressed version.



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