This photo was snapped from my Winthrop home, out our 3rd floor window, at approximately 7:23pm-ish tonight. Thanks to the internet, one can find out what type of plane, destination, and airline, etc. This is an Atlas Air 747-400. It is going 560mph at 36,000 feet. It is going from JFK-Frankfurt, Germany.
My obsession with aviation continues. Those of you who appreciate this, like I do, please have a look. Those who think: “well, it looks like just an airplane to me,” please be patient and wait for my next post 
The following photos were snapped Tuesday night.
The top was snapped tonight from South Boston at 5:51pm. A very orange moon shot with an 800mm lens. The bottom was snapped last night at 6:01pm from Arlington. A very bright moon shot with an 800mm lens plus a 1.4x teleconverter. Both photos of this “Beaver” moon show the moon just past it’s fullness. Both photos show 2 arrivals readying for landing at Logan airport. Please see my photos below.
I photographed the magic hour of Monday night’s sunset. To the left of me was the moon and a departing Logan jetliner, and to the right of me was a high altitude transatlantic jet exiting the US east coast. The origin of that flight is unknown, but definitely not Logan.
I snapped this at approximately 4:45pm today and yes, I had the luck of the Irish on my side as an Aer Lingus jet passed by the rising moon. Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Shot with a Canon 800mm with a 1.4X extender.
Lucky for me that it was a near full moon tonight where I could simply lose myself in photographing two subjects that I love, airplanes and the moon. I packed an 800mm lens into my car and headed for Winthrop. I only had a few minutes, but it was bliss. No botched fake punt, no sports talk radio, no nothing. Just the moon and this departing Continental 737. I wondered where it was going.
Last night, 6 years after I snapped this photo on the left, I got lucky again with this photo on the right. I was in Mashpee at about 10:45pm when I grabbed a very large lens and waited for this “hole in one.” It took nearly a minute for the jet to go west to east overhead and a little south of my position. The photo on the left was snapped August 26, 2004 from Winthrop. I didn’t realize the significance of the date until I looked up the older photo to compare the two. I believe both were taken at approximately the same time, give or take a 1/2 hour. For the record, I like the older one better because of the trailing contrails.
