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Flash During Camelopardalids

It's difficult to identify this flash definitively, but its brightness and shape seem more indicative of an Iridium flare to me. If we weren't seeing it so low in the sky and through so much atmosphere we might pick up a meteor's charateristic red and green colors. But even if it were a meteor, it doesn't appear to be flying with the right trajectory to be a Camelopardalid.

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Uploaded on May 25, 2014
Taken on May 23, 2014