Nonstop Flight To Venus?

Friday, October 12, 2012



I was setting up my camera and tripod on my front porch early Friday morning with the intent to capture the beauty of -4.06 magnitude Venus (upper left) and a crescent moon resplendent with earthshine, the pair only six degrees apart in the east sky. As I did so, the illuminated contrail of a rising jet aircraft appeared from the horizon, on a "collision course" with Venus. The top image was shot at 6:30 AM and is a 5-second exposure at f/8, 400 ISO and 55mm focal length. The bottom image was shot a minute later and is a 1.3-second exposure at f/8, 400 ISO and 145mm focal length. Both images were shot from Brentwood Drive NE in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Sunrise was at 7:16 AM CDT.

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