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Old 06-09-2011, 06:42 PM
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RFDS plane passing near moon.

Late this afternoon this Royal Flying Doctor Service, 'Beechcraft Kingair'
registration- VH-FDM flew low heading towards Kingaroy.

I was able to get these to quick frames with Canon 50D in high frame rate capture mode (6.3 frames per second)-settings iso 400,speed 1/640 th of a second.Camera attached to Vixen ED 103 refractor on a Vixen GPD2 mount.

Given the camera was doing 6.3 fps,the plane must have been fairly low,and at quite a speed,as there is a fair gap between these images.(Not sure if taking JPEG and RAW at the same frame slows the camera down)

Enough data here to do some maths.Hope this may be of interest

Thanks for looking-Chris

BTW- 2 images are low res frames no crop no pp,just the JPEG's,I have the raw to spruce up later,my son got some good video footage too,I'll try and load up,if there is any interest.The third is a PP version,some adjustment in levels and curves
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