Moon-Jupiter-Cirrus Colors-Jet Contrail
Taken by Dewey Vanderhoff on March 21, 2016 @
Cody Wyoming USA
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While doing some standard photos of the Full Moon embedded in colors from stratocirrus cloud ice crystal refraction , with a cameo conjunction from planet Jupiter , an amazing thing happened. A jetliner flew into the scene . It left a contrail that at first was just a dark linear shadow, then the contrail slowly expanded and took on a blue color from being backlit by the Moon. And it developed a fringe from the jet's wingtip vortices.
I've been watching the night sky for 60 years and I'd never seen anything quite as dramatic as this before last night. I consider it being a giant Plein Air painting being done in real time in the sky , using a jetliner as a brush.
Exposures made thru a Sigma 150-500 zoom lens at an equivalent focal length of 225 mm ( 4X) on a Nikon D5300. I used Aperture Priority set to f/11 with ISO 800 and Auto color balance, metering the colors nearest the Moon at -0.7 EV compensation .
I also chose to use the Nikon D5300's built-in HDR exposure mode, which combines two rapid exposures - a highlight exposure and a shadow exposure - into one scene. This does a better job of capturing the very wide tonal range, but as you can see it does result in some " banding" in the color gradations. Oh well, I'll take it.
Photographer's website:
http://https://www.flickr.com/photos/planetcody/albums
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