Two jets crossing the Moon, 24 July 13

[StephenM]

Hi all,

I managed to capture not one but two jets crossing the Moon yesterday evening, as it rose through the flight path for south-bound aircraft departing Brisbane. The two transits occured about 8 minutes apart. Here's a combined images showing the two jets together on the Moon, and the individual frames.

There's also a 2 mb animation showing both transits here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephenmudge/9358708058/sizes/o/in/photostream/

Unfortunately there were some out-of-focus tree branches in front of the Moon, which has led to some dark patches in the animation, but I'm still happy with the result.

Thanks for looking!

Cheers,
Stephen

[asimov]

Wow! What's better than one jet? TWO of them! Fortunate capture!

[naskies]

Nice captures, Stephen! No wonder why my local seeing is so terrible...

[leon]

Now you have started something Stephen, two jets, who will raise it to three, nice capture indeed.

Leon

[astroron]

Nice Work Stephen. :)
Cheers:thumbsup:

[Rod771]

Oh c'mon!!! Two! :)

Very cool Stephen, well done :thumbsup:

Some of us have trouble just shooting a decent moon. :P

:bowdown:

Edit: Arrh, they're two shots layered (read before posting Rod)

You can still have the bowdown :D

:bowdown:

[BlackWidow]

What a Jetsetter.. Very cool..

[Astroman]

damn I was struggling with one Jet, great captures well done!

[FlashDrive]

Good catch indeed.....:thumbsup:

Flash....

[Matt Wastell]

Looks excellent Stephen - I thought for a moment you got them at the same time - that would have been crowded!

[Octane]

Fabulous composite! I love the distortion due to the exhaust. :)

H

[andrew2008]

Excellent catch, well done.

[Shiraz]

naaah - that's not possible in a lifetime. well done Stephen.

[Quark]

Good job Stephen, looks quite effective.

Cheers
Trevor

[Matt Wastell]

Hi Stephen - you inspired me to muck around with some old data - while imaging the Sun back in May I had two brief transits on back to back AVIs - I did your thing (I like your duo moon transit pic) and put them in one pic!

[PeterM]

Stephen and Matt they are absolutely fabulous images, great work.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Good stuff Stephen!!:thumbsup:

Better go and get a lotto ticket now!

Cheers,

Justin.

[StephenM]

Thanks very much for the kind words everyone! Much appreciated.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Wavytone]

I wonder if air traffic control was watching.. :rofl: