by Aram Friedman

The picture below is 100% pure luck. The right place, the right time. I had just re-aligned my mount and slew to the Moon as a test. On a whim I pulled out my phone and just held it over the eye piece. As I
pressed the button the jet flew past.

This is my second accidental Jet Photo Bomb, the first was the April 8th, 2024 Total Solar Eclipse.
You can see it here https://youtu.be/bs65fl1uOKY?si=IXR2NDKk359eEisk

To this, the editor couldn’t help herself 🙂

I lined up the Moon nice and neat,
When a jet made the image complete.
By sheer stroke of luck,
As I clicked—what a pluck!
Now my photo’s both sky and the fleet.