On the image one can see about 80 points of light associable with satellites. Most of them are geostationary satellites, some are rocket bodies or satellites out of service. The distance of these object is about 38'000 km from Gnosca. The overwhelming majority of the satellites had luminosities of about 12 mag although the limiting magnitude of the images was about 15mag. The field of view of the full stripe is about 90 x 1.3 degrees.
Far East is up left.
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