Jet liner passing the Moon.

[hotspur (Chris)]

This Virgin boeing 737 passes every night at 9.20 pm,on its way to Darwin,I was out in the observatory this evening viewing Mars through the scope,and noticed the plane looked like it might pass the moon,using a Canon 50D and 400 mm L lens hand held,I managed about 5 five frames with jet in them.The plane was at approx 20'000 feet and climbing fast.

Hope these quick images may be of interest.

[allan gould]

Well done Chris, you are getting very good at this.

[El Paso Eric (Eric)]

I love these kinds of shots. Thanks for sharing.

Eric

[Forgey (Paula)]

Nice capture Chris !

[leon]

Love em Chris, top capture mate.

Leon

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

Nicely nabbed Chris.

[JB80 (Jarrod)]

Great shots.

I still haven't managed this, I've come close but not yet.
It's quite enjoyable too.

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by hotspur

The plane was at approx 20'000 feet and climbing fast.

Hope these quick images may be of interest.

Not doubting the veracity of the image, but the pitch (of the aircraft) is all wrong.

I'm estimating 20 degrees nose up... maybe more....

at 20,000 feet this would be *very* bad..... the aircraft altitude would have to be *way* lower.

Is it possible they were in a turn and you have re-oriented the image?

[hotspur (Chris)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

Not doubting the veracity of the image, but the pitch (of the aircraft) is all wrong.

I'm estimating 20 degrees nose up... maybe more....

at 20,000 feet this would be *very* bad..... the aircraft altitude would have to be *way* lower.

Is it possible they were in a turn and you have re-oriented the image?

According to 'flight radar' the plane was at approx 25'000 when it was over Kingaroy-when I looked at it,we live before Kingaroy-so allowed a bit off this reading,so it may have been a little higher than 20'000.The image has not had orientation adjusted.The would have taken off from BNE about ten minutes previous to this capture.This flight also does doing a small turn as it goes over the Blackbutt Range,I have noticed it turn very slightly,many times (much to my annoyance-as I sometimes try to capture this 737,ot its larger UAE 777 brother which often takes off at a similar time)

Thanks all for feed back and looking,I'll do some more playing around with the five images when time permits.