Seems I was quite lucky - Jupiter Airplane Transit Other · Steve Ludwig · ... · 3 · 400 · 0

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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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andreatax 9.89
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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.
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Kelvin.Hennessy 0.90
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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.
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si-cho
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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.
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