Fly me to the Moon!

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Talented astrophotographer John Chumack has done it again by capturing two aircraft crossing in front of the waxing gibbous Moon, as shot on January 6, 2012, at 5:47 p.m. EST from his backyard in Dayton, Ohio.

John Chumack
John used a Canon Rebel Xsi DSLR, a 300mm lens at f/8, and exposed at ISO 400.

A great shot, John!

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  • Last time I saw something like that was when a jet was coming in for a landing at OIA or Executive airport in florida.......... just as one was taking off on the same alignment. To make a long story short, I've never seen one of those big jets bank so hard in my life. I would guess that the pilot of one of those jets (if not both) needed a clean up on isle one. Good photo...

  • I saw an airliner fly in front of the Sun a few months ago while using a Coronado PST. You wouldn't believe how much hot gas is coming out of the engines. You can see it distorting the light coming from the Sun on its' way to the solar telescope. It looks like the Sun is really heating up, so to speak. Sun lovers might want to visit the Solar Dynamics Laboratory web site to see some VERY cool videos, unless the hackers have shut it down for some reason.

Fly me to the Moon!