Solar Contrail, 2006/4/02

While photographing the solar prominence on Sunday afternoon, I just missed capturing an ariliner flying across the Sun's disk. However, I did catch the contrail. The equipment used was a 40mm f/10 Coronado PST, a 30mm Celestron Ultima, a Canon EOS Digital Rebel DSLR, and a Canon EF-S 18-55mm lens.

Dave Mitsky

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Dave
Your nice photo reminds me of something that happened to me right after the Venus transit began--with Venus just about at the second contact point and a huge prominence adjacent to it, an airliner's silhouette was seen against the sun for a second or so followed by the lingering contrails of the engines from both wings. Alas, I was not set up for imaging, but the memory is a powerful one.