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I was watching and shooting the plane on the right when I noticed an approaching plan from the opposite direction and realized their paths would cross. The one on the left at a higher altitude.
You can really see that it appears and disappears with the same atmospheric conditions that influence natural cloud formation.
Proof, I guess, that good light can make even a tower block in Hyde look appealing. The view from the supermarket carpark after work a few days ago.
Taken with my nifty fifty. Perhpas not the obvious choice, but it was on the camera at the time and I was running to get something for dinner.
This is a rocket contrail from a rocket launched from White Sands Missile Range as seen from Phoenix, Arizona approximately 450 miles away. Taken on 04/05/99 on Fuji Provia100 film. Aperture and Shutter Speed not recorded.
First Beeline ADL Enviro400 MMC 34385 (SK19EMF) is seen here on Contrail Way, Heathrow Airport working the A4 to Cippenham.
I stepped out into the garden then noticed the sky, so I quickly stepped back in again to grab a camera!
This looked like some planes had mapped out their territories for a dogfight....which failed to materialise.
"Comet of the Century". It should have been so bright now that we could have seen it during the day! Evidently coming too close to the sun, it was torn apart. Too bad. We could have really taken some amazing photos of it.
The streak in this photo is the contrail of a jet departing Atlanta.