Fly Me To The Moon
Sometimes the night sky springs pleasant surprises!
One such event took place during my session on imaging the rising waxing moon, dubbed the Snow moon in North America, on Thursday night (25th February).
During an early imaging run an aircraft flew right through my field of view and transited the moon virtually at midpoint!
I couldn't believe it.
Consulting the Flightradar app. identified the aircraft as an Easyjet A320 enroute from Belfast (BFS) to London Gatwick (LGW)
Really happy to catch this by pure chance - not knowing the flightpath lol!!
My camera was operating at full res. at around 3.5 to 4fps and has captured 3 frames in total showing the aircraft entering and exiting.
Fascinating to see the disturbance on the moon's image caused by the hot exhaust gases.
Imaged with a Skywatcher Esprit 120MM refractor and a ZWO 2600MC.
This image is a single frame extracted from my video run.
A lovely unexpected bonus to the evening's session!
Fly Me To The Moon
Sometimes the night sky springs pleasant surprises!
One such event took place during my session on imaging the rising waxing moon, dubbed the Snow moon in North America, on Thursday night (25th February).
During an early imaging run an aircraft flew right through my field of view and transited the moon virtually at midpoint!
I couldn't believe it.
Consulting the Flightradar app. identified the aircraft as an Easyjet A320 enroute from Belfast (BFS) to London Gatwick (LGW)
Really happy to catch this by pure chance - not knowing the flightpath lol!!
My camera was operating at full res. at around 3.5 to 4fps and has captured 3 frames in total showing the aircraft entering and exiting.
Fascinating to see the disturbance on the moon's image caused by the hot exhaust gases.
Imaged with a Skywatcher Esprit 120MM refractor and a ZWO 2600MC.
This image is a single frame extracted from my video run.
A lovely unexpected bonus to the evening's session!