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Old May 23rd 13, 09:46 AM posted to uk.sci.astronomy,uk.sci.weather
Dave Liquorice[_2_]
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On Thu, 23 May 2013 09:16:50 +0100, Martin Brown wrote:

The other thing it could have been although they are not normally quite
as bright as you have implied here are Iridium satellite flares.


Good point but they are very restricted on where they are visible from. IIRC
the track is only a few miles wide at best and we have a couple of other
widely spaced reports of a similar event at the same time.

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