Place: Above Bâle or Basel on a flight from Madrid to Frankfurt
Date: 2009-11-26 @ 15:59 CET
Description: People typically watch contrails from a ground-based perspective. Here we can see a contrail how it appears from a somewhat higher position, from high above in the late afternoon. The picture was taken at a time close to sunset. This explains the long shadows and the golden-orange colour of the strato-cumulus clouds at low level. The contrail itself appears in a nearly white colour, as it was still being illuminated by the sun.
Author: Wolfgang Benesch, Germany
Equipment used: Panasonic Lumix
Original resolution: 3264x2448
