Panorama Photo

In our region, NLC's are seen around midsummer night and mostly photographed an hour and a half after sunset or before sunrise when the higher parts are light up. But at these moments the sky isn't dark enough to see them together with the starry sky. In previous years I did a lot of observation during the darkest hours of our short mid summer nights. In fact it never gets completely dark. Here, I present a view of the NLC's on June 22, 2018 at 00:57 UTC. So just before the
first morning light (beginning of dawn) and with the starry sky still clearly visible.

Constellations on this pano are: part of Ursa Major and Lynx at left, part of Auriga in the middle above the horizon, part of Perseus right of the middle and higher in the sky, part of Andromeda at right, high in the sky and with Triangulum below (please check pano 27882 and 25800 with constellations drawn).

The orange glow in the middle is reflection from the Port of Rotterdam at 67-75 km. It is even possible to distinguish the lights from the big plants of Exxon and Shell.

Canon Eos M6 with EF-M 18-150 mm, 5 p RAW 18 mm (28.8 mm KB), iso 400, f 5.6, 15 s, 4300 °K, PTguiPro 9800x3741 147.6 MB TIFF, stepdown downgrading 1870>1000>500 TIFF>1310x500 476 KB JPEG