Panorama Photo

Here on PP northern specialities like auroras and NLC's have been showed regularly, but I can't remember seeing Polar Stratospheric Clouds (PSC's), so here is a modest show for a start. Here in Scandinavia they are commonly known as "mother-of-pearl-clouds", and they are rather uncommon. They are made extremely high in the atmosphere, at 15-30000m, and are only visible during civil twilight. As can perhaps be seen, they are above one of the plane exhaust contrails on the pano.

Driving home one afternoon from skiing, I saw them coming on the sky, and made a short detour as high as possible to get them in a pano. I hope we can one day see bigger shows here on PP...

Pano made from 9 pics (RAW), 70-200@70mm, f/5,6, 1/200 sec, iso-320, developed in DPP (cloudy, neutral, moderate sharpness), stitched in PTgui pro, scale and sharpness in Irfanview.