just another sattelitte trail?

• by olli-mac-p

  is this just a sattelite trail or a light refraction

  Posted June 10, 2013 12:07 AM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Not a satellite trail but a diffraction spike (optical artifact) caused by a bright star just outside of this image .

  wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike

  Posted June 10, 2013 12:14 AM

• by olli-mac-p

  okay
  thank you

  Posted June 10, 2013 12:20 AM