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The clock in the camera is 3 minutes fast and I checked the exact location in case it makes a difference: 68.078 15.479
This picture was taken 20 seconds later and is the same brightness but seems to have some camera shake. If anyone can try to estimate the brightness it might be helpful.
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I have copied in a plane pictured a few days earlier. Even a small plane flying at very high altitude would be easy to spot in the picture as you can see. That it did not move significantly in a minute also makes it very unlikely to be a plane.
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The bird is an eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla) and can have a wingspan of up to 240 cm, the plane is a Boeing 737 and has a wingspan that is 14-15 times larger.
The bird appears larger than the plane because it is a few hundred metres from the camera and the plane is several kilometres from the kamera.
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Bjørn,
Are there any weather stations/meteorological installations/large airports up wind from that location? It could in all seriousness be a high altitude balloon playing a trick with the sun.
Some of the larger weather balloons can hit 100,000 feet, and often carry payloads the size of a shoebox or larger. If the payload were covered in a reflective material, it could definitely cause a glare. Once it got above the high altitude jet streams, horizontal movement would be pretty minimal, meaning it could have been cruising along at a speed and direction such that it caught the sun and held the reflection in a good spot for you to view it for a prolonged period of time.
American weather service offices tend to release their balloons at 06Z and/or 1400L, depending on local conditions and forecasting interests. Those times offer the best picture of convective potential.
Given the apparent altitude, a balloon released at 12Z from some point down range from you is a reasonable possibility.
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Astronomical mystery
i still stick with my sattelite\plane thoery though:-D
