Sep 30 2010Allegedly Genuine Photo Of Planar Eclipse
I know it looks Photoshopped to high hell, but this is an actual photograph of a plane trying its damnedest to eclipse the moon. It reminds me of the scene in the original Batman when the Batwing eclipses the moon, except less badass because that one formed the Bat-signal and this one formed clipart.
Photographer Chris Thomas in South East Queensland, Australia used a moon tracker in a place where there was a decent amount of airplane traffic to capture the photo, using an exposure time of 1/250th of a second.
Good looking, Chris. It just goes to show that, with enough time, patience and equipment, anybody can take a picture nobody else will ever believe is real. ADMIT IT CHRIS -- ADMIT IT'S SHOPPED!
Stunning photo of plane crossing in front of the moon [dvice]
Thanks to The Podiatrist, who claims the sight of too many bunions and ingrown toenails has ruined his fetish. Your fetish and my lunch both, buddy.
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Reader Comments
1. h - September 30, 2010 5:06 PM
second
2. Cakeflourz - September 30, 2010 5:10 PM
What's the significance here? A plane in front of the moon?
3. McFeely Smackup - September 30, 2010 5:23 PM
The significance is significantly higher for the photographer than the viewer. mostly because it took him months to set up and get the shot.
all in all, it's just a picture of an airplane in front of the moon.
4. moosh - September 30, 2010 5:24 PM
fake! the shadows are all wrong
5. McFeely Smackup - September 30, 2010 5:34 PM
the funny part is the "NOT photoshopped!!" part...but if you look at the file properties summary, "creation software: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Windows" LOL
6. GP - September 30, 2010 5:39 PM
The original: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100929.html
7. Equivocal - September 30, 2010 5:54 PM
Wait for it...
8. Captain Walker - September 30, 2010 5:57 PM
Oh Daisy?
9. Paty - September 30, 2010 6:00 PM
To the two, "super sleuths" above....Congratulations you can right click. Your vast knowledge of the inner workings, and shortcuts within the computer are only exceeded by your lack and inability to not be internet assholes. Well done.
It's a picture, that didn't take months, but probably a good morning and night and a lot of coffee and fiddling with a tripod and camera. Another congratulations to the photographer for being able to push down the click and set a shutter speed.
10. Dishy - September 30, 2010 6:17 PM
That's no moon ...
11. quaddmgtech - September 30, 2010 6:18 PM
@9 pointing out how other people are internet assholes by being an internet douchebag...
way to fight fire with fire...
12. (-.-) OJ's Mom (-.-) - September 30, 2010 6:46 PM
That's not even Photoshop. It's MS Paint. I could crank that out in 5 minutes.
All robots must die.
13. HalOfBorg - September 30, 2010 7:37 PM
I was looking at full moon with my 70mm one night years ago when a plane did just this, slightly larger view of plane. I was shocked and thought "Oh how cool!". Too bad all I had was my eyes.
14. naas (TRO) - September 30, 2010 9:27 PM
@10 ....STOMPYS' nut?
15. NotaTard - September 30, 2010 10:05 PM
for those of you i don't like fuck you, you know who you are, the rest are cool.
16. GP - October 1, 2010 11:02 AM
More information: http://izismile.com/2010/10/01/stunning_plane_crossing_middle_of_moon_2_pics.html
17. Peter Pedro - October 2, 2010 2:11 AM
I checked the Exif, sorry to inform you CS5 was involved.
18. Chris - October 6, 2010 11:52 AM
Paty, Paty, Paty…
I might have believed it longer then ½ a second it if the plane was silhouetted (even with the sun). There’s no camera on earth (yet) that has the dynamic range required to capture this. Any and all photos you see with a big bright ass moon in the back ground are ALWAYS photoshoped!
He might have captured this by stacking three shots and stacking them together, one for the sky…. one for the moon…. and for the plane as it passed by!