Seems I was quite lucky - Jupiter Airplane Transit - Forums

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Sep 27, 2022 · Edited: Sep 27, 2022

Last week, I was extremely lucky when I did a few test shots of Jupiter at the beginning of my imaging session. Fortunately, I noticed something black in front of Jupiter during the video capture. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't even have noticed the airplane as Autostakkert simply excluded those frames. Using the playback function of Flightradar24, I could later identify the airplane (see below). This video was taken from a small city north of Frankfurt (Germany) at around 20:34 UTC on September 22 2022.

https://www.astrobin.com/uw9fix/C/

Airplane

Ryanair flight FR6042
Podgorica (Montenegro) -> Brussels (Belgium)
Altitude: 10973 m
Ground Speed: 782 km/h
Boing 737-800 Series

I did a bit of research and couldn't find any similar videos, so this might have been quite a rare event. Did you maybe experience something similar during your imaging sessions?

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andrea tasselli

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Sep 27, 2022

That's very lucky and cool indeed. I had planes crossing over Jupiter/Saturn but they were much closer by so they just eclipsed the planet.

Kelvin Hennessy

Sep 30, 2022

Amazing capture Steve ! That's gotta be super-rare. I've never seen one before and I keep an eye out for stuff like this due to my interest in captureing the ISS & Hubble transiting planets.

Claudio Tenreiro

Sep 30, 2022 · Edited: Sep 30, 2022

I believe it is a very cool image, and the details of the contrail and the turbulence, of the multiple vortex in there are amazing, considering how it was obtained, congratulations.