A superb or “grand” display of noctilucent clouds on June 7-8, 2020 with the NLCs very bright to the northwest and north early in the evening extending up at least 20° in altitude. However by the time I took this panorama at about 11:45pm MDT the display had diminished. The Sun was 12° below the horizon when I shot this. The location is what I call Solstice Pond near home where I often shoot auroras and NLCs, especially around summer solstice. The clouds showed a tremendous amount of fine structure and wave patterns. Capella, usually present in NLC images, is right of centre at top. This is a panorama of 10 segments, each with the 85mm Rokinon lens at f/2 and the Canon 6D MkII at ISO 200 and oriented horizontally for 1.6 seconds each. The size of the original panorama is 22,000 x 4200 pixels. Stitched with ACR.
A superb or “grand” display of noctilucent clouds on June 7-8, 2020 with the NLCs very bright to the northwest and north and early in the evening extending up at least 20° in altitude. This was about 11:20 pm MDT. The Sun was 10° below the horizon when I shot this. The illumination dropped quickly after I shot this to reduce the NLCs to a bright band low across the horizon and then to disappear. The clouds exhibit a tremendous amount of fine structure and wave patterns. Capella, usually present in NLC images, is just right of centre. This is a panorama of 12 segments, each with the 85mm Rokinon lens at f/2 and the Canon 6D MkII at ISO 100 and oriented vertically (portrait) for 1 second each. The size of the original panorama is 31,800 x 6100 pixels. Stitched with PTGui.
