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Anyone missing this?, Tom Gray

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Anyone missing this?, Tom Gray

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I took this image attempt at star trails over a couple of hours, using iOS Nightcap app, at the end of March 2019. We live on a busy flight path between East Midlands and Manchester airports; East Midlands is (or was) the busiest cargo hub in UK.

There are few 'benefits' to the current pandemic, and my heart goes out to all those affected, as UK passes 40,000 deaths associated with this horrible virus. The lack of planes in our skies has been welcome, perhaps not for the economy, but definitely for the environment and astrophotographers.

Like you, I have noticed the increasing number of satellites... and following another Falcon launch of Starlink satellites, and with many more to come, I question the wisdom of 'polluting' the one final part of our planetary system... Start trails or 'star trek'?

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