Orange lines on Aladin lite

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When browsing on Aladin Lite I saw these orange lines
So basically, I was looking at the stars in the GAIA dataset on Aladin Lite for a project and I saw these two orange lines:
Dark starfield with two thin parallel orange streaks running diagonally from lower left to upper right, with a purple crosshair marking a star near their center.
Star field from Aladin Lite with two diagonal orange bands crossing it, each marked by small orange circles and one purple cross-shaped marker near the lower band.

Dense star field on a black background in Aladin Lite, with a diagonal orange band and two large orange circular rings with dark centres, one at the upper right and one at the lower left.

The coordinates of the star I was looking at that is right near these lines is RA 20 30 17.96 DEC +24 41 22.3
Anyone know what these lines are? I'm just curious, since I couldn't tell...

I have a feeling that an "Oh it's just that oops" moment is incoming...
 
Satellite tracks?
There's one between them has no track.

I don't have a high confidence that this is what those are.
 
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TensorCalculus said:
TL;DR Summary: When browsing on Aladin Lite I saw these orange lines

So basically, I was looking at the stars in the GAIA dataset on Aladin Lite for a project and I saw these two orange lines:
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The coordinates of the star I was looking at that is right near these lines is RA 20 30 17.96 DEC +24 41 22.3
Anyone know what these lines are? I'm just curious, since I couldn't tell...

I have a feeling that an "Oh it's just that oops" moment is incoming...
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