@BenAndSam3 I'd be amazed if you can tell on this horrid Youtube version. The HD version (original footage) clearly showed the windows on the fuselage. But I'd say your guess sounds about right, as that would likely be a commuter flight between major cities on the east coast at that time of night, around 10PM or so.
@BenAndSam3 Woodbury, CT, on the Watertown line. Oxford Airport is nearest facility, but this was looking in the direction of Hartford, so could be out of Windsor Locks.
Then were is the navigation lights? (if i remember right, thats the red and green flashing lights on the wing tips) and what is that mysterious blur when the "plane" hits the edges of the moon.
@benythebot I can tell you that the blur is probably diffraction or maybe chromatic aberration. But the lack of lights I never noticed. I was more attracted to the fact that I could see the cabin lights and the windows of the plane in the full HD version/master footage. I don't know whether the navigation lights would be visible when the plane is at service altitude. Also, the duration of the time the plane is visible is so short that it could fall between flashes from the strobes.
I'm the one that shot it. In fact, I didn't discover the jet until I watched the entire clip on my 30" display later that evening. I captured not one, but TWO jets, 14 minutes apart on that shoot. I suspect it is an air route to the airport in Windsor Locks and the moon just happened to be in the right part of the sky. Pure luck of chance.
We think it may be an air route, because 5 minutes later in the tape, there was another jet passing through the SAME lower third of the moon. That footage was unusable because it happened just as I was adjusting the pan/tilt to reset the position of the moon in the VF. The moon traverses the viewfinder in less than a minute, so I had to keep resetting pan/tilt to follow it. But that's what happens with 1130mm zoom lens on a moving celestial body.
Ok it might have been going to Boston. That is the closest International Airport that could handle that big of a plane.
BenAndSam3 1 year ago
DC-10 or MD-11.
BenAndSam3 1 year ago
@BenAndSam3 I'd be amazed if you can tell on this horrid Youtube version. The HD version (original footage) clearly showed the windows on the fuselage. But I'd say your guess sounds about right, as that would likely be a commuter flight between major cities on the east coast at that time of night, around 10PM or so.
basspig 1 year ago
@basspig Yeah When was this video taped?
BenAndSam3 1 year ago
@BenAndSam3 This was sometime during the summer of 2007, or possibly toward the fall.
basspig 1 year ago
Cool where was this taken or close to any airport?
BenAndSam3 1 year ago
@BenAndSam3 Woodbury, CT, on the Watertown line. Oxford Airport is nearest facility, but this was looking in the direction of Hartford, so could be out of Windsor Locks.
basspig 1 year ago
Then were is the navigation lights? (if i remember right, thats the red and green flashing lights on the wing tips) and what is that mysterious blur when the "plane" hits the edges of the moon.
benythebot 1 year ago
@benythebot I can tell you that the blur is probably diffraction or maybe chromatic aberration. But the lack of lights I never noticed. I was more attracted to the fact that I could see the cabin lights and the windows of the plane in the full HD version/master footage. I don't know whether the navigation lights would be visible when the plane is at service altitude. Also, the duration of the time the plane is visible is so short that it could fall between flashes from the strobes.
basspig 1 year ago
WHY IS THAT SO COOL??????!?! ITS YOUST A PLANE THATS FLYING PAST THE MOON?? IS THAT SO AMAZING!!? I see this every day.. ahhh
ebayrs 2 years ago
Excellent!
143tbone 2 years ago
OK i believe u !!! i also have such experience too!
ly9002 3 years ago
No you dont
ebayrs 2 years ago
thats not real
pinkpurplepuppys 3 years ago
I'm the one that shot it. In fact, I didn't discover the jet until I watched the entire clip on my 30" display later that evening. I captured not one, but TWO jets, 14 minutes apart on that shoot. I suspect it is an air route to the airport in Windsor Locks and the moon just happened to be in the right part of the sky. Pure luck of chance.
basspig 3 years ago
oh ok
pinkpurplepuppys 3 years ago
it looks like a passenger plane
pinkpurplepuppys 3 years ago
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dtc526 2 years ago
DC-10/MD-11.
zenmachinefilms 4 years ago
nice shot.. use/sell it as stock
Jay1967 4 years ago
What luck!
djg320 4 years ago
We think it may be an air route, because 5 minutes later in the tape, there was another jet passing through the SAME lower third of the moon. That footage was unusable because it happened just as I was adjusting the pan/tilt to reset the position of the moon in the VF. The moon traverses the viewfinder in less than a minute, so I had to keep resetting pan/tilt to follow it. But that's what happens with 1130mm zoom lens on a moving celestial body.
basspig 4 years ago
cool
ZeerustScott 4 years ago