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Related: About this forumAn Airplane in Front of the Moon
Explanation: If you look closely at the Moon, you will see a large airplane in front of it. Well, not always. OK, hardly ever. Actually, to capture an image like this takes precise timing, an exposure fast enough to freeze the airplane and not overexpose the Moon -- but slow enough to see both, a steady camera, and luck -- because not every plane that approaches the Moon crosses in front....
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180703.html
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An Airplane in Front of the Moon (Original Post)
Ptah
Jul 2018
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I'm going to bookmark this site so I can see every day's new picture! Thank you Ptah!
It's a wonder, since this is science-y stuff, that the Party of Disinformation hasn't ordered it taken down yet ....
brush
(53,771 posts)2. Something doesn't seem right with the scale of the plane to the moon.
SCantiGOP
(13,869 posts)5. Telescopic lenses. N/T
brush
(53,771 posts)6. Meaning what? How does that explain the unlikely scale?
SCantiGOP
(13,869 posts)9. They both look closer
But since the airplane is actually closer, it appears even larger (as contracted to the moon) than it actually is.
eppur_se_muova
(36,261 posts)7. low-flying plane ...
photographer probably camped out near the approaches to the airport.
brush
(53,771 posts)8. Maybe, but a 747 is a huge plane. Would the moon be that much...
larger than that big a planein the foreground no less?
Photoshop?
defacto7
(13,485 posts)3. Isn't that a jet?
TlalocW
(15,381 posts)4. Jonny, what do you make of this?
This? Well, I could make a hat, or a brooch, or a pterodactyl!
TlalocW