747 clips the Moon

A small handful of Boeing 747s fly the flight corridors near our house every night. And for the past few months, I've wondered what one of those 747s would look like passing in front of the Moon. Last night I (sort of) got my answer. Meet (half of) flight Atlas Air flight 5Y612, flying Friday night over the Space Coast at 32,000 ft and 489 kts. It was nearly directly overhead and traveling from Huntsville, AL (HSV) to Miami, FL (MIA). It's listed as a Boeing 747-45E(F), in other words, a giant airplane. I've taken to just leaving my camera on a lunar tracking mount all night, making the numerous near-misses less work (and less disappointing). For this shot, it was a "yesyesyesyesnoooo" kind of thing, and I went to bed feeling "meh" about it. But it's grown on me. And 6-year-old Lauren, too. When I showed it to her, she declared, "The photos you usually take of the Moon, the planes are really small. This is the best one because the plane is hugeungus!"