Aeroplane sillhouette against the solar disc

[Moonshane]

I was observing the sun today (6" f11 dob, Baader white light filer,32mm plossl (50x) and Baader solar continuum filter) and enjoying the excellent activity (the thread has a super image representing closely the detail I saw) when all of a sudden a 'plane shot across the disc! It was really bizarre sight and truly spectacular! OK I missed the Venus transit but this was more impressive, albeit not as rare an event. the wings spanned the whole disc.

[Ganymede12]

Must have given you a shock!

Shame you didn't get a pic.

[Moonshane]

it's did! I don't do imaging although this is one time I almost wished I did.

[4lefts]

this happened to me once with the pst... it's really, really odd. it didn't span the whole disc, but i got a little plane shape, upside down of course, and some little tufts of "smoke" chug out of the back like a kid's drawing of smoke from a steam train chimney. made me jump. it was only the second time i'd used the scope and it hasn't happened again since.

[moriniboy]

Similar thing happened to me the other day as well.

Was observing with the PST in between cloud breaks when a pigeon landed on my neighbours aerial, all of a sudden its head appeared right in the centre of the suns disk, I could not tell what it was initially but figured it out when it started nodding

[Matthew]

Nice one shane,ive forgotten what the sun looks like,since ive bought the pst its done nothing but rain !

[Moonshane]

Similar thing happened to me the other day as well.

Was observing with the PST in between cloud breaks when a pigeon landed on my neighbours aerial, all of a sudden its head appeared right in the centre of the suns disk, I could not tell what it was initially but figured it out when it started nodding

brilliant!

[Moonshane]

Nice one shane,ive forgotten what the sun looks like,since ive bought the pst its done nothing but rain !

I bet it's a pleasure lifting the PST compared with the 16"!

[keithatrochdale]

When the sun was just about to go below the hill line, I had the sillhouette of a guy on a mountain bike - was an ET moment!

We are in the Manchester airport landing flight path, so do get a number of 'heaveies' crossing at times.