There Is an Airplane On the Moon (and It’s Not a Photoshop) [Image Cache]

No, this incredible image will never be a Photoshop montage and that’s not Batman’s plane. It’s a Qantas Dash 8 Q 400, a twin propeller passenger airplane passing in front of the Moon in Australia. It truly is how it was taken:

Today, I achieved something I even have wanted to do for a considerable length of time: A plane crossing the moon.

Everyday this Qantas Dash 8 Q 400 flys over our country property,always at 5.30 pm, without fail-I actually have watched it fly ‘through’ the moon once or twice.

Today, the moon was at the ‘right’ phase-approx in step with the planes flight path. So I install gear (I even have done this drill a large number of times!)

I saw the plane along way of and thought ‘no-its not likely to hit’,I stayed beside scope just in case,then as it got closer,i’ll see ” it was going to line up!”

My palm started to sweet-buck fever. I only desire to pull the trigger once I knew the plane was within the centre of the moon. I got my wish!

The shot was taken in South East Queensland, at 5:30pm on September 16. Chris-the photographer-used a Vixen 103 ED refractor on a Vixen GP mount, guiding by a Vixen SS2K. His camera was Canon 450D at 1/250s, set on ISO200.

One shot in a million, indeed. [ Ice In Space via APOD ]

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