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Old 01-07-2010, 08:32 PM
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Omaroo (Chris Malikoff)
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A plane in my 180-sec long exposure?

Hi all

Last night I was out with the Sky-90 and QHY-9 taking images of both the M8/20 region and Rho Ophiuchi.

I noticed tonight, when starting to stack images in Photoshop, that I had one frame with your typical trail of navigation lights though it... except that you can clearly see the tail of the aircraft as well as the front, it seems. However, the front section seems to have two jet engines hanging on where the cockpit should be. Weird! This was a 180-second (3 min) exposure, so I guess that the plane was caught as soon as the shutter on the QHY-9 opened.

See attached, where I've highlighted the areas involved.
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