Plane passing close to the Moon.

[hotspur]

Was up early this morning,and noticed the Hong Kong flights passing reasonably close to the moon.So when I had my breakfast on the verandah I thought I'd have my 400 L and 450D at the ready.I could here a plane-but hard to see with all that cloud.when I could see the plane I only had a very short time to turn camera on and point.Was able to get two frames.the first a bit blurry,but the second I aim at the plane,looks like a bird or moth wanted to be in the picture too,but it appears its the sharper of the two.I will paint it out later.The plane appears to be a 'Virgin Blue' Embraer ERJ-190,a domestic flight about to land at Brisbane from Cairns or Townsville.

Specs 1250th of second,iso 400,AV 5.6.hand held,I hope this may be of interest,thanks for looking.

Chris

[jjjnettie]

Nicely nabbed Chris.

[hotspur]

Thanks jjj- I will photoshop the offending moth/bird out,and making some minor adjustments.I have the RAW file.these are just how they came out of the camera. Cheers Chris

[OICURMT]

Additional proof that you indeed are properly setup to have taken the original Moon Shot...

Excellent grab.
OIC!

[desler]

Nice Chris, very nice.

Darren

[hotspur]

Thanks for your interest,I had a quick play in CS 5 this morning to remove flying ant,and adjust contrast,some curves and crop image.

Cheers Chris

[Peter Ward]

Actually, I think the plane was not close to the moon at all... and strongly suspect it was still in the Earth's atmosphere :)

Nice piccy just the same!

BTW don't know about the Embraer's but a little known fact is:

If you could produce the same thrust *at altitude* in an A380, as you can at sea level, there is more than enough power to make orbit.