A panorama of noctilucent clouds in the waning stages of a great display, as they retreated to a low but bright band across the northwest and northern
A panorama of noctilucent clouds in the waning stages of a great display, as they retreated to a low but bright band across the northwest and northern horizon, here over the wind-rippled waters of Crawling Valley Reservoir near home in southern Alberta. The wind prevented the ideal reflection. This was June 20, 2021, the evening of summer solstice this year. So this was the shortest night of the year with the Sun the least distance below the horizon it would get for us at my latitude of 51° N. The colours blend the blue, yellow and orange of the solstice twilight with the blue-white of the NLCs, with a slight reddish tinge at the tops of the clouds where the Sun is setting. This is a 5-section panorama with the 85mm Samyang lens and Canon R6, stitched with Adobe Camera Raw.
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Photo credit: © Alan Dyer / VWPics / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: 20, 2021, 85mm, acr, alberta, astrograph, clouds, crawling, galaxy, june, lake, mesospheric, nlcs, noctilucent, panorama, polar, prairie, reflection, samyang, solstice, summer, twilight, valley
