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Glowing cloud in the sky tonight, approx 9:24PM mountain daylight time.
This is looking east from Alamogordo.
It appears to be some sort of fuel dump from a rocket launch or staging operation...but this is an unusual azimuth to see it. (I can see west coast space launches, but that's low in the west.)
I took a series of exposures, and the cloud was drifting slowly to the northeast, slowly expanding, and slowly fading.
Astrometry of the star field is here:
https://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/9967566#annotated
At the time of the photo, the cloud was at an elevation of 32 degrees, and azimuth 124 degrees.
2nd and 3rd images are additional analysis of this event.
#Astrophotography
#RocketFuel