What are the chances??

[Averton]

Mars had an apparent diameter of 16 arc seconds last night - what are the chances of this happening?

[Crater101]

Egad! :eek:
Your luck appears to be about on par with mine. You're correct - what are the chances? Talk about rolling the dice...

[DarkArts]

That's extraordinary.

Last week I saw 5 or 6 satellite trails while I was polar aligning (with PoleMaster) but that was over a period of ~30 mins.

[Dave882]

That’s cool!

[Averton]

We should be able to win Tattslotto with odds like this :)

[Averton]

Certainly is extraordinary. In the future its going to be more extraordinary if you can take a 3 minute sub without a satellite. We were looking through some subs from the other night and 6 out of 30 of them had satellite trails.

[Averton]

Thanks David.

The video is slowed down to 1/6 speed so while we were actually watching live it happened so quickly that it just looked like Mars disappeared for a moment or too and then came wobbling back like in extreme bad seeing.

[rustigsmed]

Crazy odds!!

[Averton]

Agreed Russ :)

[gb44]

Gotta be a plane obscuring the planet with fuselage...?

[Averton]

Correct Glenn it is a plane :)

[mura_gadi]

Nah, That's Santa doing time trials and making sure he's good to go...

[Averton]

Rudolph on speed :)

[h0ughy]

Awesome

[Averton]

Thanks :)

[EpickCrom]

WOW!:eyepop:

[LonelySpoon]

Passenger in the window seat, Aisle 24, was looking straight at you...

I've has jets go through M42 a couple of times, that's on extended exposures- much better odds of being photobombed!

What was your frame rate?

Neville
LSO

[Averton]

We have been photo bombed a few times now but this is by far the narrowest FOV. Our frame rate was 150FPS with 6ms exposures.

[Simon-W]

Direct hit! Looks like the plane was at high altitude, too, which makes the alignment more impressive.

[Averton]

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Nikolas]

Mars actually Ducked as the plane passed

[Averton]

Yep, sure looks that way :)