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25-07-2013, 01:02 PM
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Two jets crossing the Moon, 24 July 13
Hi all,
I managed to capture not one but
two jets crossing the Moon yesterday evening, as it rose through the flight path for south-bound aircraft departing Brisbane. The two transits occured about 8 minutes apart. Here's a combined images showing the two jets together on the Moon, and the individual frames.
There's also a 2 mb animation showing both transits here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephen...n/photostream/
Unfortunately there were some out-of-focus tree branches in front of the Moon, which has led to some dark patches in the animation, but I'm still happy with the result.
Thanks for looking!
Cheers,
Stephen
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25-07-2013, 01:24 PM
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Wow! What's better than one jet? TWO of them! Fortunate capture!
25-07-2013, 02:12 PM
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Nice captures, Stephen! No wonder why my local seeing is so terrible...
25-07-2013, 04:34 PM
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Now you have started something Stephen, two jets, who will raise it to three, nice capture indeed.
25-07-2013, 05:47 PM
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Nice Work Stephen.
Cheers
25-07-2013, 06:02 PM
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Oh c'mon!!! Two!
Very cool Stephen, well done
Some of us have trouble just shooting a decent moon.
Edit: Arrh, they're two shots layered (read before posting Rod)
You can still have the bowdown
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25-07-2013, 08:50 PM
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What a Jetsetter.. Very cool..
26-07-2013, 04:02 PM
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damn I was struggling with one Jet, great captures well done!
26-07-2013, 04:17 PM
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Good catch indeed.....
26-07-2013, 04:26 PM
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Looks excellent Stephen - I thought for a moment you got them at the same time - that would have been crowded!
26-07-2013, 04:41 PM
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Fabulous composite! I love the distortion due to the exhaust.
H
26-07-2013, 05:11 PM
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Excellent catch, well done.
26-07-2013, 05:43 PM
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naaah - that's not possible in a lifetime. well done Stephen.
26-07-2013, 05:54 PM
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Good job Stephen, looks quite effective.
26-07-2013, 07:00 PM
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Hi Stephen - you inspired me to muck around with some old data - while imaging the Sun back in May I had two brief transits on back to back AVIs - I did your thing (I like your duo moon transit pic) and put them in one pic!
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26-07-2013, 07:13 PM
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Stephen and Matt they are absolutely fabulous images, great work.
26-07-2013, 07:28 PM
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Good stuff Stephen!!
Better go and get a lotto ticket now!
Cheers,
Justin.
26-07-2013, 10:13 PM
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Thanks very much for the kind words everyone! Much appreciated.
27-07-2013, 02:35 AM
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I wonder if air traffic control was watching..
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