View allAll Photos Tagged contrails
Several minutes into flight, with both shuttle Discovery and the top of launch contrail lit by pre-dawn sunlight.
2010 UPDATE: Thanks to Emma Rigby for including this in her gallery A June Journey which was included earlier this year in planetarium show at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich.
2011 UPDATE: Entered in 2011 Astrophotographer of the Year contest sponsored by Royal Observatory in Greenwich (Flickr group).
Driving up the north Alaska Highway yesterday, my passenger and I were fascinated by this very distinct dark line (at lower left) extending about halfway across the sky, unaffected by the clouds. We shortly assumed that it was in some way a shadow of the high jet contrail, but were stupefied by the geometry of the weird, wide angle at which the shadow was splayed off from it's progenitor. It seemed weird, since it's something I don't recall observing before, altho it's not unusual to see contrails from the occasional jet on a high flightpath over the pole.
Also, I was a bit entranced by the fluffy, fractured texture of the high clouds.
Taken north of Kluane Lake, Yukon, 8mm Peleng lens on my Lumix G-1.
Contrail casting a shadow on a thin low cloud layer, with a sun halo. Weird. And for bonus points, the contrail seems to stop right where the sun is. Where are the UFOs?
An airliner's contrail high above the coast of Los Angeles.
Canon T2i
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L IS USM Macro
HDR created from one RAW image
HDR tone-mapping in Photomatix
Finishing in Photoshop
Here is a photoshop enhanced photo of Jupiter to the left of the Moon and sitting in a contrail that was drifting by. To get Jupiter and the contrail to show, I had to allow the moon glow to overwhelm the photo. I took another shot of the moon where I changed the settings to show its detail, then superimposed that image of the moon on top of the moon glow to create an interesting, surrealistic image. Jupiter is causing a blue glow in the contrail and looks like it is causing the contrail. If you look at the fullsize image you can see Ganymede (one of Jupiters moons) just below it and at the edge of the blue glow.
Camera: Canon Powershot G1 X
Exposure: 0.4 seconds
Speed: ISO-1600
Aperture: f/5.8
Focal Length: 60.4mm (the equivalent of 112mm on full frame)
Two aircrafts crossing their contrails at different flight levels over Paris sky. The one we see seems to be an Air Berlin Boeing 737.
There are two types of contrails in this picture. The one being produced by the Boeing 737 is a classical contrail, its apparition is due to water vapour released by the combustion process in the engines. The other one is more complex, we can see the two vortexes rolling inside the main contrail. Those vortexes can't always be seen, but that day the temperature and humidity conditions made it possible.
See an article about this picture on my aviation blog : aeroplanedream.blogspot.com/2008/09/behind-aeroplane.html
This is a piece I collaborated with Susie Ghahremani (boygirlparty) on for a show at Leanna Lin's Wonderland called SupahCute's Mash Up Art Party. Dream's do come true!!!
Contrails are usually caused by the condensation of water vapor in the engine exhaust. This shot shows that the condensation can even occur as a result of the pressure difference caused by the entire wing, not just the engines.
12/27/2014 Contrails over Gravesend Bay during sunset. Kodak Ektar 100. Canon A-1. Canon FD 50mm 1:1.4.
Shot from the car on the drive back to St. Louis. It was one of those days where every single jet contrail just hung in the sky forever. Somewhere in Illinois. December 2006.
The trail on the left has two diverging turbulent trails aligned with the engines superimposed on the broader less divergent aerodynamic trail. Ten seconds later as the plane passes more nearly overhead the aerodynamic component has disappeared. The iridescence some 20 degrees from the sun is in the aerodynamic trail only. Since the overlap in the conditions that produce the two quite different types of trail is small the presence of both at the same time is relatively rare. I had thought that the plane had climbed into cooler air but the plane livery matches that of Gulf Air A330 (A97-KF) flying non-stop over PathumThani (Bangkok) from Manila to Bahrain. An extensive discussion of purely aerodynamic trails that are often mistaken to mixed trails is here. www.metabunk.org/threads/aerodynamic-contrails-that-look-... Thanks to Alexey for a more likely assignment of flight.
Contrail left by Virgin Atlantic Airbus A350-1041 aircraft G-VRNB at dusk when Westbound to New York JFK Airport. Note the shadow of the contrail on the high level cloud.
23rd September 2021.
Swansea West.
Contrails (short for "condensation trails") or vapour trails are artificial clouds that are the visible trails of condensed water vapour made by the exhaust of aircraft engines. As the hot exhaust gases cool in the surrounding air they may precipitate a cloud of microscopic water droplets. If the air is cold enough, this trail will comprise tiny ice crystals.