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Update: Cleaned up the 5 aircraft trails finally. XMP file may be nearly as big as the RAW file. There is a MEO satellite that I left in, because a clean night sky is no longer possible with such a long exposure.

This image was taken at CSIRO's Australia Telescope Compact Array site, west of Narrabri. The radio astronomy dishes were live and in use and slewing between locations for astronomy researchers in their designated time slots. It was a Saturday night and the array at some stage was looking at a star being ripped apart by a black hole.

For more info on this site go to https://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/public/
For the real time status of the antenna pointing go to https://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/cgi-bin/Public/atca_live.cgi

The image was created in camera, 2.15hr exposure using Olympus LiveComp feature