Rocket launch spiral

Casually checking out my all-sky camera, I caught a strange phenomena.

Going outside it turned out to be a mesmirizing spiral that crossed the sky from NNW towards E in about 15 minutes, around 21 MET.

My son Warre Verheyden could capture it on the phone camera:

Most likely a Falcon 9 rocket stage with a fuel cloud spiral, generated by the tolling stage. The launch was 18.48 MET on Cape Canaveral SLC-40

M82

The famous galaxy in Ursa Major, without it’s neighbour M81.

Image on two nights with the OSC ASI2600MC and the C14 on F7.2 (Starizona Reducer LF). 1000 frames of 30 seconds

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