Spot The Trails

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I love how that even in trail form some objects in space are fairly easy to identify with just a little knowledge of the night sky.
So here is a challenge. See if you can identify all the objects on the following list in this image. Most are very easy but others might take a little longer to identify.

1. The Moon (and no, not the one in my logo)
2. Venus
3. A Plane
4. A Satellite Flare
5. A Meteor
6. Sirius
7. Orions Belt
8. Betelgeuse
9. Orions Sword
10. The Pleiades (Seven Sisters)

Some things that might help you:
- This is a seven hour star trail so some objects have had time to travel through the frame completely while others finish in the frame.
- I live in Australia so if you are in the northern hemisphere things might appear upside down and back to front to how you normally view the sky.
- This is looking East.

How many can you spot???

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1. The Moon should be very obvious as the biggest and brightest trail.
2. Venus is the next brightest trail just to the right of the moon
3. The Plane is running across the center bottom of frame.
4. The Satellite Flare is at the top of the frame running across the trails
5. The meteor is at the bottom right of frame. There is also a very small one right at the top of frame to the left of the Satellite
6. Sirius (The brightest star in the sky) is the bright trail starting just to the left of the meteor
7 and 9. If you look jest down and to the left of the Satellite you should spot a cluster of stars whose trails end along the same line. This is Orion's Sword (home to the Great Orion Nebula). Just below and slightly to the left of the Sword is Orion's Belt which is the three stars of a similar brightness that end in a line.
8. If you draw a line from Orion's Sword to the end of Venuses trail that line should cross the end of a bright, reddish trail. That is Betelgeuse.
10. The Pleiades (Seven Sisters) was certainly the hardest one and is the wide, diffuse, blue trail just below the trail of The Moon.