'star' on Moon's shadow - what was it? please!

[laurencerowland]

I live in Perth, Western Australia. At about 19.30hrs on the 18th February 2013, my wife told me to go outside to look at a 'star' over the shadowed area of the Moon. Over a period of about ten minutes the object moved down and left, towards the bright half of the Moon and was lost against the surface (ie it took about ten minutes to cross about one quarter of the Moon's diameter). I did not see the object emerge from bright area of the Moon.

Efforts to photograph the object with a point and shoot camera whilst being eaten alive by nasty little mozzies were not too effective:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... 3847761088
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... 3847121072

(sorry, my website is down at the moment, so I posted these on Facebook)

What was it, please?

[owlice]

See here: http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php? ... 00#p193253

[laurencerowland]

Thanks very much!
Looked like the object was over the Moon, but the eye does funny things when looking at the Moon.
Actually, my snap seemed, too, to show Jupiter in front.
Whatever, the reason for that; at least I have something to tell the children.

Thanks again, L.

[neufer]

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The moon-and-stars logo was discontinued in 1985 because of the controversy.>>

[Beyond]

Some people, it seems, can just be so damn stupid. But then... are the rest of us really any less, in a lot of ways

[neufer]

[b][color=#0000FF]‘Fly Me to the Moons’ — a view of the Moon with Jupiter and three Galilean moons, along with a passing airplane. Credit and copyright: Greg Gibbs. See more of Gibbs astrophotography at his website,[/color][/b] [url=http://www.capturingthenight.com/]Capturing the Night[/url].

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Luckiest Photo Ever: The Moon, Jupiter … and More
by Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today, February 19, 2013

“No matter how much you plan and prepare,” said photographer Greg Gibbs, “sometimes you just have to be very lucky.”

As we mentioned last week, Jupiter and the Moon were going to have a close encounter in the sky on February 18, with an occultation visible in some areas. And so Gibbs was preparing to get shots of the occultation through his telescope from his location in Victoria, Australia, and was using an automated timer to get shots at about 10 second intervals But then he noticed lights from a plane coming close to the Moon.

“I realised that there was a chance that it would pass in front of the Moon,” he said, “so I quickly canceled the remote timer I was using to take the shots and instead started shooting high speed continuous frames. I managed to get this plane crossing the moon in five individual frames just as Jupiter was about to be occulted by The Moon.”

This final product, as Gibbs notes on his Facebook page, is a two image composite. The Moon, Jupiter and the plane are all one single image. Then he took an overexposed image to bring up the Galilean Moons of (from left to right) Io, Callisto and Europa. At the time of this shot, Ganymede had already been occulted by The Moon.>>

[BMAONE23]

[b][color=#0000FF]‘Fly Me to the Moons’ — a view of the Moon with Jupiter and three Galilean moons, along with a passing airplane. Credit and copyright: Greg Gibbs. See more of Gibbs astrophotography at his website,[/color][/b] [url=http://www.capturingthenight.com/]Capturing the Night[/url].

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Luckiest Photo Ever: The Moon, Jupiter … and More
by Nancy Atkinson, Universe Today, February 19, 2013

“No matter how much you plan and prepare,” said photographer Greg Gibbs, “sometimes you just have to be very lucky.”

As we mentioned last week, Jupiter and the Moon were going to have a close encounter in the sky on February 18, with an occultation visible in some areas. And so Gibbs was preparing to get shots of the occultation through his telescope from his location in Victoria, Australia, and was using an automated timer to get shots at about 10 second intervals But then he noticed lights from a plane coming close to the Moon.

“I realised that there was a chance that it would pass in front of the Moon,” he said, “so I quickly canceled the remote timer I was using to take the shots and instead started shooting high speed continuous frames. I managed to get this plane crossing the moon in five individual frames just as Jupiter was about to be occulted by The Moon.”

This final product, as Gibbs notes on his Facebook page, is a two image composite. The Moon, Jupiter and the plane are all one single image. Then he took an overexposed image to bring up the Galilean Moons of (from left to right) Io, Callisto and Europa. At the time of this shot, Ganymede had already been occulted by The Moon.>>

Ju Petter Believe it

[bystander]

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