What have you caught going through your field of view?

[Manok101]

I've caught airplanes and bugs, and even a satellite once. My question is, what've you seen through your telescope while looking at other things?

[Ags]

A bat against the moon.

[Dai150PL]

A Bat for me also, give a me a shock. I really like it when a plane flies past when viewing the moon, always wish at that moment I was recording it.

[Ags]

The bat is my friend - it flaps about the garden while I set up my scope in the early evening. We've got two bat boxes in the garden, but no tenants so far.

[Dai150PL]

It is amazing how fast they are, I stand in the garden with the dogs on summer nights just watching them dart around feeding.

[Ags]

They're like puppies with wings! :-)

[Dai150PL]

[jimmyjamjoejoe]

I've only had a handful of observing sessions, but so far i've had a shooting star whiz through the bins, and a satellite whiz through while i was hunting down the ring. I managed to track it for a while, but there was no detail.

[Andy McK]

We were moving , into an outbuilding, at work, been empty for a bit, It had a sink, n cupboards in a corner for Tea n coffee. As we were lugging stuff into the office, there was a scream from the kitchen area, we rushed to see one of the girls just standing by the sinks, stiff as a board. She was cleaning the sink, there were cups there that hadent been washed for a bit, she picked up a cup to wash and she thought there was an old tea bag in the cup, as she picked it up, it crawled onto the back of her wrist, then the bat flew off.

Thats when we heard the scream.

[LukeSkywatcher]

I had a meteor travel through my scope FOV once. I was using a 32mm EP at the time so it looked brilliant. It was a Geminid.

Satellites are ten to the dozen on any given night.

[Trull]

Meteors, satellites, bloomin aurora getting in the way of M81, birds, flies, and one celebrated moment Mars. ooops.

[Budgie]

I had this when playing just with the DSLR and 18mm lens:

I'll see if I can dig it out when I get home from work but I took one last week and I captured either two satellites or a satellite and a meteor in the same image.

[mr saddo]

Hi all , loads satellites, other week had a strange object in Cygnus while looking in the middle of it, a tiny faint star ? was moving up ward very slowly, i grabbed another ep for more mag but lost it trying to re-focus. also a passenger plane very low one night ,could see the cockpit lit up in blue, and all the passenger windows on side.

[Budgie]

I found that other image.

It was while I was having my first go at M33 and I think it's two satellites going through the frame.

Needless to say I didn't use this one in the final stacking.

[Carbon Brush]

Somewhere I have a widefield Orion photo. Running across the bottom of the frame is a broken line. Flashing aircraft light.

Visually once looking at the moon, a line of distortion slowly moved down the face. A recent contrail drifting in the high altitude wind.

Then the usual satellites, meteors.

Once had a spider inside a scope tube. But it didn't show up through the eyepiece so that probably doesn't count.

[Adacas]

A flock of migrating geese flew in front of the moon while I was setting up for lunar photos recently but I couldn't get my finger on the button quick enough to get the shot. I had just noticed in live view but too late. They were in V formation, would have been cool to have that.

[earth titan]

Geese, or swans. Not too sure cos it was dark...............................

[Quark]

Birds, Planes & Doris from No 42

[Stu]

Shooting star through the double cluster through the 4", wonderful. Plus plenty of satellites and one plane ( which made me jump!)

Stu

[Axe]

taking my stepdad on the moors and showing him stars had to be...the most funiest thing ive ever laughed at...i set his eyes on the poloris star then as i was moving him with my vision 'next star left is etc...go down 3 stars is etc'...he said ''wow this ones really bright''..thinking he was looking at the moon or a building i looked and he was looking directly at a car heading toward where we were...might not sound funny here...but at the time i couldn't breath from laughing lol

[rawhead]

Still not sure what this was?

http://stargazerslounge.com/lounge/109417-tricky-one-birders.html

[cathalferris]

I've had a share of strange sights..

o High-level planes on transatlantic flight paths, both against the Moon and against star backgrounds.

o Head-on commuter jet plane on final approach to the airport 1/2 mile away behind me - full HID landing lights followed about a second later by the roar of the jet engines. Mildly unnerving!

o Someone's head as I was engrossed in looking at something (possibly jupiter) not too far above the horizon, as they were coming up to look through as well. I wasn't expecting to see it disappear..

o Plenty of meteors

[Celeste]

A couple of meteors and the odd plane or two

[Charon]

I have a family of owls that live in a derelict building nearby, now and again a blur (owl) will fly through my FOV it always makes me jump.

[Scosmico]

Once splitting Eta Cassiope an air plane suddenly appeared. That was a shock!