A320 Airbus Transit

[stardust steve]

Hi. I was lucky enough to grab my first A320-232 Airbus transit yesterday evening (6/12/13-20:20)
Stats:-
Jetstar A320-232 Airbus
Registration VH-VQJ
ADL-->MEL
500D/SWED80/NEQ6PRO-Lunar tracking rate.
Exp 1/1000, ISO-800.
Image has been cropped.

Thanks for looking,
Steve.

[tilbrook@rbe.ne]

Love it Steve!:thumbsup:

Looks like it's going to land right in your lap :eyepop:.

Cheers,

Justin.

[EricB]

Very impressive Steve:thumbsup:

Eric

[Dennis]

That’s a great shot - darned good timing!

Cheers

Dennis

[Rod771]

Nice one Steve :thumbsup:

[prokyon]

Great shot! :eyepop:

[StephenM]

Great capture Steve! Well done.

Cheers,
Stephen

[desler]

The exhaust trail blurring the moon is really something. Great capture!

Darren

[Astroman]

Smart A.. :) Another great transit shot, your certainly in the right spot for them, wish we had a greater range of aircraft transiting... Was thinking of going to Parafield to try get one one day....

[dutch2]

Great shot, well done.
The Moon looks amazing.:thumbsup:

[04Stefan07]

Unbelievable shot! :jawdrop:

[stardust steve]

Thanks Justin. It was moving quite fast ( some appear to be traveling faster than others) and I wasn't sure 1/1000 would be fast enough to freeze the plane.
Also it appeared lower than some of the others I have shot.

[stardust steve]

Thank you Eric :)

Cheers Dennis. I enjoy these transits. They all seem to be different.

Thanks Rod :)

Thanks Prokyon :)

Cheers Stephen:)

Thanks Darren. Yeah the trails are awesome. Sometimes I can see craters in them as the light is reflected ( although it could be my imagination) :)


Haha thanks. Sometimes smart doesn't cut it Andrew:) luck still plays a large part. There have been many occasions were they all missed... Many occasions lol


Thanks Dutch. Yeah even at 1/1000 he Moon still looks great. :)

:) thanks Stefan

[strongmanmike]

It's a conspiracy for sure! that's clearly a US NSA/CIA modified drone craft intentionally being flown into the moon, to start a war with China :scared: :eyepop:

Great capture :thumbsup:

Mike

[stardust steve]

:lol: yeah those pesky drones.
Yes good theory, they also could be targeting that German base on the dark side of the Moon... Iron Sky style:lol:
Cheers.

[astronobob]

Magic catch Steve :eyepop:

[IanP]

Steve, catch is fantastic, no doubt about it, but (for me) the huge watermark right across the centre is a nonsense ..
:shrug:

[stardust steve]

Cheers Bob:thumbsup:

[stardust steve]

Thanks Ian.
Many others would probably agree with you and in an ideal world, i too would like to.
However, after finding one of my transit images on someone's website/blog (purely by accident) with no credit, no permission AND my watermark that was in the bottom right corner cropped out, I watermark my transit images across the middle now.
Maybe I am being too idealistic, but i would have thought a little bit of courtesy goes a long way for those that like to "borrow" images.

[Ric]

Great capture Steve.

Well done.

[stardust steve]

Thank you Ric.
I have set up the last two evenings for more transits but with no luck.
I have noticed the path the high altitude aircraft take which helps in planning for a high alt transit which is next on the to do list :)