Transit of Dash-8 Q400

[Todo43 (Lachlan)]

Pretty stoked about this image, completely accidental capture!

I was aiming to do a timelapse of the sun and a prominence off the side of it (which turned out to be dying out so I got nothing from it), and when I was rendering the video, I discovered one of the stacked images had some odd artifacts on it. Upon further searching, I found that a plane (specifically a Qantas Brisbane-Canberra flight at cruise altitude) had crossed across the sun, and I captured a fair few frames of it. So here it is! I have been hoping this would happen for a while but its so hard to plan!

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[h0ughy (David)]

Awesome shot, that's lucky imaging at its best

[Dennis]

Wow - that is a great shot - well done.

Dennis.

[Crater101 (Warren)]

That's a really neat shot. Sometimes the dice roll in your favour.

[astronobob (Bob)]

I can only imagine the thrill of discovering that in the Video, your exposures have kept the Quantas very sharp too, how good is that,
Good things do happen , ,