Reason-I have observed that aircraft for many years,and put a fair bit of time in to working out the calculations of when it would pass the moon.If that is not some sort of maths and astronomy-well may be you think Captain James Cook was not doing astronomy when he went to the Pacific to observe the transit of Venus.
Geoff has also used a similar style of observation-0ver many years to obtain his wonderful image.
May be the mods like to have a review of the above post from Paul.
Thank you-Chris[/QUOTE]
That is an awesome shot Chris.
It reminds me of one I took 7 years ago when I was first starting out.
I was imaging the Venus transit with a Meade LX90, Baader solar film and a Nikon D70 DSLR. The sun was getting low and a 747 came flying in on its final descent. Also the heat plumes coming off the engines made interesting distortions of the Sun.
Again a one in a million type image, complete with Venus transiting the Sun.
http://www.pbase.com/gregbradley/image/30349784/large
Greg.