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Damn. So cosmic rays are pretty intense huh?



Yes. Cosmic rays are a significant obstacle to any kind of automated event detection in imagery taken from space, especially outside low Earth orbit.

That streak was a classic CR. Depending on the angle of incidence on the CCD, you can see different shapes.




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