A message in a forum made me setting up my Nighthawk and trying out to image the new visible sunspot on both days. I must admit, that better results came out by using the NIKON D70s than with the Webcam. Later I had the moon in front my lens too and some planes came across, which were difficult to catch ...
The planes were captured as following: The ToUcam was capturing at 10 frames per second in black and white mode. Then I tried to find the water vapor trail by looking to the monitor. This one was easy to find. Then I "tried" to follow the trail until the aircraft came onto the image. It all ended by having about 100 images of three different aircraft on about 6000 images of the AVI film...
This image was selected as "Stellar Shot of the Week" in May 2007 on the STELLARVUE website.
This image was taken by using an additional green filter.
This image was selected as "Stellar Shot of the Week" in May 2007 on the STELLARVUE website.
