Setting Sun with Persistent Contrail
Taken by Peter Lowenstein on November 23, 2016 @
Mutare, Zimbabwe
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Camera Used: Panasonic DMC-TZ60
Exposure Time: 10/20000
Aperture: f/7.1
ISO: 100
Date Taken: 2016:11:23 22:25:49
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Aircraft contrails are very rare in the Mutare sky as no regular airline routes pass above. This afternoon a single well defined contrail appeared at about 17.15 LT which remained almost perfectly stationery for more than an hour and did not begin to disperse until after the sun had set. A number of photographs were taken with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 camera and used to produce the accompanying mosaic and three additional views of the late afternoon sun passing behind and below the contrail and then setting through thin layers of cloud just above the horizon. There must have been no stratospheric wind at the level at which the plane flew for the contrail to have moved so little and retained its integrity for so long. Clear sky with so little stratospheric disturbance should not occur at this time of year which should be rainy season. Hopefully this is not a sign of a return to drought?
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