Jet Flies Through Moon Sony V1U Video

There was a full moon this evening and I had just returned from a video shoot and had some tape left over and got some shots of the moon, using the long zoom lens of the Sony V1U to capture it up close and personal. While I was recording, a jet airliner passed in front of the moon.

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[BenAndSam3]

DC-10 or MD-11.

[basspig]

@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]

@basspig Yeah When was this video taped?

[basspig]

@BenAndSam3 This was sometime during the summer of 2007, or possibly toward the fall.

[BenAndSam3]

Cool where was this taken or close to any airport?

[basspig]

@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.

[BenAndSam3]

Ok it might have been going to Boston. That is the closest International Airport that could handle that big of a plane.

[basspig]

@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.

[benythebot]

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.