So there's this thing in the sky.

A little while back during the Perseid meteor shower, excited astronomer and APOD translator Laurent Laveder wanted to take some pictures of the phenomena from the beach in Tregguenec, in northwestern France. While he did not catchany brilliantly bright meteor,he did catch this. To the casual observer, it's a meteor. But Laveder correctly identified it as an Iridium flare from an orbiting satellite. The satellite appears extra bright due to the long exposure of his camera right after this appeared.