AC130: moon, plane crossed in front of it

Just got the ac130a.
LIttle time to play with it and brand new to video. Had about 20 minutes to go outside and play, but it was dusk and got dark quick.
Moon was only bright thing so I pointed it that way...while I was fiddling with the buttons...a cool event happened. A jet passed right between my camera and the moon.

I used a cheap editor and kept it raw, added some time stretched repeats.

You can see the exhaust from the jet as she goes by.

I was in 1080/60i...so the slow mo is not as good as it probably could be..

coincidence...timing....awesome.
Luckily I was not pressing anything and it was in focus when it happened...quite a moment.

the moon was so small in the sky and yet the jet almost perfectly intersected it...the odds are slim of that happening like that again.
 
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If you used that in a film, people would assume it was CGI. Awesome capture, and now you need to think of how to wrap a story around it ...

- Greg
 
If you used that in a film, people would assume it was CGI. Awesome capture, and now you need to think of how to wrap a story around it ...

- Greg
I just wonder what it would have looked like at 1080/60p and someone who knew how to work the camera better was running it.
 
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