Jet and Transit of Mercury

[Littleguy80]

I lucked out with this jet passing across the face of the Sun as I was taking photos of the Mercury transit on my iPhone. I believe the jet is based at RAF Lakenheath. I fiddled a bit with exposure and contrast but other than that it’s as is. Had a really great afternoon observing and taking photos of this event. 

Photo taken with a SkyWatcher Equinox 80, TS Optics Herschel Wedge, 9mm Baader Genuine Ortho and iPhone 8.

[jjosefsen]

Very cool pic!

[Stu]

That is very cool Neil. Any plane would have been great, but a fighter makes it even better! Looks like a Typhoon?

[Littleguy80]

1 minute ago, Stu said:

That is very cool Neil. Any plane would have been great, but a fighter makes it even better! Looks like a Typhoon?

Thank you, Stu. The fact that it was a jet really made it for me too  Yes, a Typhoon was my thought too. 

[MartinHiggins]

That is one awesome picture!

[Ouroboros]

Wow! Chocks away with that! Amazing photo.  

[tooth_dr]

That is really something else! My favourite transit pic by a long shot. 

[domstar]

Wow. What an image. Congratulations.

[Littleguy80]

Thank you for all the kind comments
 
Here’s the full Live Photo. The image above is the moment I caught and not a time adjustment from the Live Photo. 

Edited November 11, 2019 by Littleguy80

[Paul M]

Wow, it's going so fast it made the Sun wobble!

[Scooot]

Great transit shot.  That should be published!

[Littleguy80]

12 minutes ago, Scooot said:

Great transit shot.  That should be published!

A friend suggested sending it to Sky at Night magazine so I did that this evening. Fingers crossed  

[MilwaukeeLion]

One of coolest solar captures I've seen, congratulations.  Veterans day here in states, great reminder of brave men in woman in your services.  Maybe frame / send as gift to that Typhoon squadron and pilot.  Sure they would get a kick out of it.

[Hayduke27]

I saw this in the other thread, and it is just amazing.  I can't love it enough.

[orion25]

Wow! What composition!

 

Reggie

[NenoVento]

Simply fantastic!!!

Congratulations lucky one :-),

NV

[Stu]

@Littleguy80 you made it onto the Sky at Night website! Nice one 👍👍

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/transit-mercury-11-november-2019-pictures/

[Littleguy80]

19 minutes ago, Stu said:

@Littleguy80 you made it onto the Sky at Night website! Nice one 👍👍

https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/transit-mercury-11-november-2019-pictures/

No way! Thank you for letting me know. I exchanged some emails with them today and they said it may make the January edition if page space allows. Very chuffed to have it up on the site though  

[orion25]

8 hours ago, Littleguy80 said:

No way! Thank you for letting me know. I exchanged some emails with them today and they said it may make the January edition if page space allows. Very chuffed to have it up on the site though  

Congratulations, mate! You richly deserve it for that amazing shot!

[Pete Presland]

Nice little unexpected bonus

[Littleguy80]

On 12/11/2019 at 01:55, MilwaukeeLion said:

One of coolest solar captures I've seen, congratulations.  Veterans day here in states, great reminder of brave men in woman in your services.  Maybe frame / send as gift to that Typhoon squadron and pilot.  Sure they would get a kick out of it.

I wanted to let you know that I followed your suggestion and emailed the RAF base the picture. They used it on their twitter feed

 

 

Edited November 21, 2019 by Littleguy80

[Highburymark]

Excellent stuff Neil! Memorable image. If Sky at Night doesn’t publish it in its print edition then Astronomy Now might. Quite often see (several) months-old shots in there so still a chance after January.

[Littleguy80]

12 minutes ago, Highburymark said:

Excellent stuff Neil! Memorable image. If Sky at Night doesn’t publish it in its print edition then Astronomy Now might. Quite often see (several) months-old shots in there so still a chance after January.

Thanks Mark. I’ll have to give them a try if it doesn’t make cut for Sky at Night. 

[MilwaukeeLion]

So cool Neil ! Again just a great capture.

[bottletopburly]

Brilliant capture well done 👍