Supermoon plane transit

[StephenM]

Hi all,

After catching one of these last month (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=107725), I thought it was worth trying again with the perigee full Moon. We were clouded out on Sunday evening, so I tried again on Monday, when the Moon was still only 21 hrs past perigee. My technique of pre-focussing my 50D and 70-200 f/4L telephoto, and then just sitting and waiting for a jet to fly past while the Moon was in the right spot worked again :).

A single image is attached, and a 1 MB animation can be seen here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenmudge/9123961369/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

[Phoenix]

Great capture Stephen :thumbsup:

Cheers Steve

[StephenM]

Thanks Steve!

[Larryp]

Good one, Stephen!

[iceman]

Cool! Nice one :)

[CapturingTheNight]

Very cool Stephen. :thumbsup: Now to ask you the same question that was posed with my Plane, Moon, Jupiter image: "What sort of plane was it and what was the flight number?" http://www.flightradar24.com/

[Gruffalo]

Easy part is it is a 737-800 - either QANTAS or Virgin

[StephenM]

Thanks for the comments guys!

Cheers,
Stephen

[astronobob]

Thats very interesting seeing the wake following, awesome Stephen! !