Qantas Moon transit

[stardust steve]

Hi. Here is my 1st Qantas moon/sun transit image and my 6th plane/sun/moon transit image in total. This is my sharpest image so far for transits, there must have been some good seeing conditions.
Included is the main image, the info on the flight from my mobile app and the pic i took with my camera straight after of the back of the camera screen for FB :lol:
SWED 80, eq3 using manual- tracking turned off ( even the RA and DEC clutches were released in the rush)
500D captured in RAW.
Thanks for looking.
Steve.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

That's a great shot Steve!

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Cheers,

Justin.

[FlashDrive]

That's a good one ....best I've seen by a long shot....:thumbsup:

Flash ..!!

[stardust steve]

Thanks Justin. They better pay me first lol:rofl:
:thumbsup:

[stardust steve]

Cheers Flash. I think a combination of iso 400, faster shutter at 1/500, great calm conditions, seeing might have been really good?, the plane is lower in alt than in my other transits, all contribute to a better image overall.
For a few days per month, from my location i get a chance to image these pics as the planes follow the same path and it's just a matter of the Moon/Sun being in the right position.
Thanks:thumbsup:

[EagleEyes]

Great image Steve :thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

Nice light-aircraft shot :)

[Deeno]

Cool!

[Larryp]

Good work, Steve!

[stardust steve]

Hehe you wouldn't believe it ( or you probably would) an Adel to Auckland international transited the sun around the same time as I took this image. I saw the classic shadow on the ground outside so I checked what it was on the app. Sure enough, I missed a bigger one :rolleyes:
Next time...

[stardust steve]

Cheers Andy :thumbsup:

[stardust steve]

:) thanks Deeno

[stardust steve]

Cheers Laurie:)

[ourkind]

Top shot Steve! Love it :thumbsup:

[astronobob]

Must be 'over the moon' with that Steve,, top shootin ' !

[lacad01]

Nice work Steve :thumbsup:

[Saturn%5]

Cracker :thumbsup:

[Astroman]

Pffft, you can do better than that :)

Nice Capture....

Now where's that new one you got?

[Forgey]

Nice Steve!

[stardust steve]

Cheers Carlos.

Thanks Bob, yes I am :)

Thanks:)

Cheers Saturn :thumbsup:

It's coming haha, multiquoting on the iPhone lol fun...

[stardust steve]

Here is another I got from this morning around the same time. Different aircraft this time( this one is a lot dirtier). It was a bit brighter and the image was a tad over exposed. I captured it in Raw so I could do a little bit to try and bring it back :)

[bobbyf]

Great image Steve
Which mobile app are you using there?
Cheers

Bob

[stardust steve]

Thanks Bob. It's Flightradar24 pro. It's awesome. You can see live air traffic all over the world. :thumbsup:
http://www.flightradar24.com/apps

[stardust steve]

Thanks Paula. :)

[Erg]

Its an app and a website.

www.flightradar24.com (http://www.flightradar24.com)

As Steve said - Its awesome.

Pete