Hi All,
Noticed the General Chat thread on the old TV show UFO and thought I might drag out this very early attempt with a kit CCD from Oatley Electronics, from about 2001.
This was a monochrome CCD that had a video output at 22 frames per second, I was trying it out on the Moon and something flashed through the centre of the field of view, it is on 10 frames. I printed out the individual frames and took them to the 2001 SPSP and showed the first two frames to Ed Stone, Ed was the director of JPL and was accompanying Dr Mirriam Baltuck the then NASA rep in Australia.
Ed looked at them and said that he thought I had doctored them on my computer, that is until he saw the other 8 frames.
These are the first two frames, reminds me of the shadow of the alien space craft crossing the Moon in "Independence Day".
I found a posting of my animation on the Brisbane Astronomical Society site. Unfortunately it is 320 kb so I can't post it directly here, and I really haven't looked at home to find and shrink it. I took the sequence with a Sony handycam on a tripod in my front yard, IR on, of C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) in January 2004. Comet image at the start was stacked in Registax. http://www.bas.asn.au/imaging/ts_machholz_ani.htm
Looks great Tony, must be pretty long odds of an aircraft flying through the centre of the field of view, looks very similar other than the background.
2.4 mb mpeg.
