Full Moon Airbus A320 transit, 25th May 2013

[StephenM]

Hi All,

Here's an Airbus A320 flying in front of the Moon this evening, photographed from my deck using my 70-200mm f/4L telephoto lens. I was waiting for the BBQ to heat up and scanning for aircraft flying near the rising Full Moon. Managed to shoot this sequence just before throwing the sausages and steaks on the grill! :)

The attached images are a couple of single frames, but I also put together a nice animation (3 MB) which you can see here:

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3816/8824056266_bb6b088596_o.gif

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Astroman]

Awesome capture, well exposed in every detail... Congratulations.

[von Tom]

Excellent!

[leon]

Great capture Stephen.

Leon

[Forgey]

Nice capture !

[lacad01]

Well done Stephen :thumbsup:

[Larryp]

Nice work, Stephen

[asimov]

Great captures Stephen!

[redbeard]

The best I've seen, love the animation with the exhaust visible!

Cheers,

Damien.

Cool.:cool:

[h0ughy]

is there anywhere you don't have a camera pointing Stephen? well done

[peter_4059]

Great capture Stephen.

[colinmlegg]

Nicely done :)

[Dennis]

Excellent animation Stephen, the heat plumes from the jet engine exhausts have come up really well. Well done on getting all the capture settings correct at such short notice!

Hope you didn’t burn the snags!

Cheers

Dennis

[Deeno]

Lovely and sharp!

[iceman]

Excellent! Well done

[astroron]

Great Capture Stephen.
I love the wisp of exhaust at the end of the transit :)
Cheers:thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Good catch. :thumbsup:

[StephenM]

Thanks very much for all the comments everyone! Much appreciated.

And I even managed to avoid burning the snags, Dennis!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Quark]

Most excellent work Stephen, sharp as and the jetwash looks great also. Reckon you have taken multitasking to a whole new level.

Very well done.
Regards
Trevor

[deanm]

Stephen - Ace shot!

But, at peril of revealing personal geek-ness, that's clearly an Airbus A320/319.

The extended fuselage behind the rear of the tailplane is the give away!

If you check airport arrival/departure times & your location/line of sight, you may identify who, when (& perhaps confirm 'what')!

DeanM

[StephenM]

Thanks very much Trevor!



Thanks Dean - I should have done a bit of research before claiming it was a 737! I think Jetstar fly quite a few Airbus A320s, so it might be one of them.

Cheers,
Stephen

[LewisM]

Dean has it - I was about to correct it.

It's an Airbus A320.

[Solar]

Great capture, hope you didn't burn the sausages and steaks.

[StephenM]

Thanks for the confirmation Lewis!



Thanks Ralph! The sausages and steaks were great!

Cheers,
Stephen