Fly me to the Stars or "Aircraft over Andromeda"

[melsky]

Hi

Here is an interesting sub frame of an aircraft crossing the Andromeda Galaxy. It is part of the stack for the photo at the bottom.

You can clearly see the tail plane lit up alternatively from the left or right depending on whether the port or starboard strobe is flashing.

Also the trail stops part way across the frame indicating that it happened in the last second of the 120 sec exposure (nearly missed it)

you might also notice the starboard white trail is also slightly longer, this is because as the shutter effectively closes from the base upwards

it covers the orange port trail first and the aircraft fly's further before the starboard trail is covered (must be a way of working out how fast it's going)

Quite interesting from a frame I was very close to deleting.

Mel

[cardconvict]

spooky

[adamsp123]

Amazing! you got a nice final result.

[MikeWilson]

That's awesome!

[CharmQuark]

thats completely amazing

[ollypenrice]

Very spooky!!

Olly.

[WayBig]

Love the "ghost plane!" picture

[Bigwings]

Now who is going to identify the aircraft type.....

Very interesting capture.

[peter shah]

interesting shot....but a real pain...occupational hazard i guess:rolleyes:

[themos]

I want a sig like that!

[NickRose2006]

Very cool capture. I just sent you a message about the photo. If you say yes, then the fellow aviation guys on Airliners.net would probably have an idea of what type of aircraft it is.

[MaCross]

Very interesting to see and great result!

[johnh]

Nice result without the plane, widefield will always have these interlopers but not quite as exotic as a strobing Jet.

John.

[moocher]

Thankgod for sigma clipping!!!!

Alan

[barkis]

I wonder if some planet dwelling residents in Andromeda have reported seeing a UFO.

Ron.

[Boren]

I like them both very much.

The ghost plane image is one in a million !!

Cheers,

Harel

[Whippy]

that's magic!

Tony..

[Sierra Golf Mike]

Very interesting capture with the aircraft but the picture of Andromeda is wonderful.

Steve