No, this incredible image is not a Photoshop montage and that’s not Batman’s plane. It’s a Qantas Dash 8 Q 400, a twin propeller passenger airplane passing in front of the Moon in Australia. This is how it was taken.




  1. Martin martelli says:

    It Happens..Once in a blue Moon

  2. Glass Half Full says:

    @1 Nice!

    WONDERFUL shot! Great job. I’ve taken hundreds of pics of planes and you rarely get that timing just right.

  3. Capt, O says:

    That’s no moon…

  4. Pwuk says:

    There’s a double decker bus on the other side.

  5. Rob West says:

    The photo may be real, but it looks tweaked.
    Still a great shot.

  6. UncDon says:

    We Fly More Koalas to the Moon than Any Other Airline!

  7. Fred F says:

    Something a bit odd about the way the vapour/vapor trails end just where the image of the moon in the background ends.

  8. Transport me away says:

    What a scenic and serene photo
    No doubt fly me away
    What a beauty
    You would think the moon was photoshop cropped
    its just so well done
    Nice and neat
    Well done Captain – a capital class photo

  9. HateBadDesign says:

    Admit it, they crashed upside down on the moon!

  10. Mr Fog says:

    # 7 Fred F Something a bit odd about the way the vapour/vapor trails

    Do propeller aircraft create vapor trails? I’m not an expert but I thought they were caused by the Venturi effect of jet engines.

  11. Tim says:

    It’s sad that every great shot has the now standard disclaimer “No, this is not Photoshopped”, placed before it.

  12. Counterweight says:

    # 11 Tim “every great shot has the now standard disclaimer “No, this is not Photoshopped”

    Well we wouldn’t be in that situation if so many photographers, newspapers and magazines didn’t try to pass off altered photos as real!

  13. The Monster's Lawyer says:

    I was on that plane! We had momentarily lost gravitational pull from earth and ended up very close to the moon. Our heroic pilot landed us safely on one of the cheese craters.

  14. Animby - just phoning it in says:

    #13 Monsieur Lawyer: Do you think we’re fools? A prop aircraft cannot leave the earth’s atmosphere. Unless, maybe there was a tractor beam in one of those craters. A John Deere tractor beam. Beam me up, Sully.

    I like cheese.

  15. deowll says:

    Ultra cool!

  16. Animal Mother says:

    Disclaimer, shmisclaimer.

    This was ‘shopped.


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