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Jupiter - 2022-09-22 - Airplane Transit, Steve Ludwig

Jupiter - 2022-09-22 - Airplane Transit

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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Description

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. 



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



Equipment
  • Bresser Messier 10" Dobson (f/5)
  • Skywatcher EQ6-R
  • Explore Scientific 3x focal extender -> 3810 mm focal length
  • ZWO ASI 290MC + ZWO UV-IR cut filter
  • ZWO Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (ADC) Mark II



Acquisition in FIrecapture 2.7
  • 28976 frames
  • shutter speed 6.2 ms
  • gain 264
  • 160 fps



Processed in PIPP
  • selected only the frames around the airplane appearance
  • histogram white point stretch to 100%
  • highest compression (didn't affect the quality)
  • reduced the speed from 160 fps to 15 fps
  • exported as *.gif

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Description: In this revision, I copied one frame from the middle of the video to the beginning. This makes it easier to spot what is going on here from looking at the thumbnail.

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