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@nktpnd @Marco_Langbroek @DaveSchmerler @mhanham Let's assume the photo was taken yesterday, I'd say — based on the direction of the shadows — that the image was taken roughly between 13:30 and 14:30 UTC. (I'm not aware of any known sats having this kind of optical capability, so it doesn't bring us much further.) 
@nktpnd @Marco_Langbroek @DaveSchmerler @mhanham Also, I'm just gonna take this opportunity to tweet out another off-nadir satellite image. They're just so lovely. Real life SimCity. (This is Shanghai last year, captured by @planetlabs).
@nktpnd @Marco_Langbroek @DaveSchmerler @mhanham Correction: 13:30-14:40 *local* time (UTC+4.5). Interestingly, “USA 224” (a suspected KH-11 spy satellite) was overhead the launch site at 14:10 local time. Given the angle of the photo, it could have imaged it from the southwest after. H/t @M_R_Thomp.
