{"id":2014,"date":"2026-02-12T12:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=2014"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:28:16","slug":"transparent-contrail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=2014","title":{"rendered":"Transparent Contrail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/20260212-Jet.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/20260212-Jet.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2015\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Click image to see original version. Then press F11 for full screen and Ctrl+wheel to zoom in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I was just setting up on AR4373 when this jet flew over. The funny thing is that the contrail is nearly transparent. All the others I have captured are like black smoke trails. (the fuzzy shadow is a tree branch &#8211; Sun is still pretty low at 57N)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPDATE: Closer inspection in slomo shows it is actually a plane with propellors which maybe explains the mystery. See video below.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/20260212-propellor2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/20260212-propellor2.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2019\"\/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Click image to see original version. Then press F11 for full screen and Ctrl+wheel to zoom in.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just setting up on AR4373 when this jet flew over. The funny thing is that the contrail is nearly transparent. All the others I have captured are like black smoke trails. (the fuzzy shadow is a tree branch &#8211; Sun is still pretty low at 57N) UPDATE: Closer inspection in slomo shows it <a href='http:\/\/starrydave.com\/?p=2014' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-ha","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2014"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2020,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2014\/revisions\/2020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/starrydave.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}