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Community photo entitled  by Breck DeWitt on 04/08/2024 at Amelia Island, FL, USA

On 04/08/2024 04:12 pm by Breck DeWitt| Amelia Island, FL, USA

A bit of luck meets weeks of planning and preparation. I had planned on shooting what we would see of a partial eclipse on Amelia Island, FL. I was shooting 2 camera plus my ZWO Seestar S50 for closeups of the eclipse. As luck would have it, just as the eclipse was to end in about 15 minutes, I was watching the Seestar live feed and caught what appeared to be a plane crossing directly across the Sun. The Jacksonville airport is about 30 miles away so this was one taking off from JAX. Anyway, I noted the time and looked at the video from that timeframe and captured some 15 frames of the airplane flying directly between the sun and my telescope.

ZWO Seestar S50 telescope + solar filter - video capture of the partial eclipse

Pulled the AVI video in Photos on iPad. Each frame of the plane crossing the sun was then exported as a TIFF into pictures. The frames were then brought into Photoshop 2024 where the image was cropped to a 9:16 ratio and then scaled up to roughly 2x original size.