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A display of noctilucent clouds, viewed from the flight deck of a Boeing 787 at 41,000’ over Northern Canada.
2 thoughts on “A display of noctilucent clouds, viewed from the flight deck of a Boeing 787 at 41,000’ over Northern Canada.”
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Mammatus (Mamma) and subtle signs of asperitas spotted over Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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A sky full of passing clouds spotted near Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan
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Sunrise with a view of a cloud that John thought vaguely resembled the shape of Australia, spotted over Brisbane, Australia
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Pannus beneath a storm system, spotted over Los Alamos, New Mexico, US
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Light on the horizon near Poppelsdorf Palace, Bonn, Germany
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A face in the sky, spotted over Greenfield, California, US
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A rainbow beneath the storm, spotted over Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland
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A framed view of stratocumulus, spotted near Upperville, Virginia, US
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A storm system spotted over South Wales, from Blue Anchor Beach, Somerset, England
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Fallstreak Hole (Cavum) spotted by Adrian's friend, Mike Owen, over Acton, Dorset, England
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Altocumulus lenticularis that reminded Mike of a prototype of the Starship Enterprise, spotted over Conwy, North Wales
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An approaching storm over Atagohama Central Park, Fukuoka City, Japan
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Crepuscular rays emanating from behind a storm near Taiwan
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Primary and secondary bows with precipitation falling in the distance, spotted near Vermontville, Adirondacks, New York, US
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On the horizon, clouds that look like mountains, spotted from La Turbie, France
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An amazing shot, James. Don’t often get to see a sky like that so high up in the sky from an airplane at 41,000 feet and get it so accurately on what must have been a special night camera. Must have been close to the top of the troposphere and at the bottom of the stratosphere, where your were flying, where nearly all the clouds are made of ice crystals, cirrus clouds for example and the temperature is below -50 degrees. From Rebecca Hill
Thanks James for this most remarkable photo showing the famous noctilucent clouds glowing between the black sky and black earth. What a glorious shot!