Final week, skywatchers throughout North America have been handled to a unprecedented northern lights show, however airline pilot and photographer Matt Melnyk could have had the perfect view of all.
Cruising at 36,000 ft (11 km) throughout a flight from London to Calgary, Melnyk photographed the vivid aurora present on Nov. 12 from the cockpit of a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Melnyk is not any stranger to flying alongside the northern lights. “This time of the 12 months, I get to see aurora 90% of the time on my flights throughout Europe,” Melynk stated. “However this specific flight was particular as a result of a extreme photo voltaic storm was in progress.”
Matt Melnyk is an airline pilot and avid aurora chaser who commonly enjoys northern lights reveals whereas cruising at 36,000 ft.
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On Nov. 11-12, a extreme (G4) geomagnetic storm lit up skies throughout the northern hemisphere with vibrant auroras sweeping over Canada, the U.S. and whilst far south as Mexico. The dazzling show adopted the arrival of a number of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — bursts of magnetic subject and plasma from the solar — launched by sunspot AR4274, one of the energetic sunspot teams of the present photo voltaic cycle.
“It is uncommon to be flying on the actual time a serious photo voltaic storm is going on, so I think about myself extraordinarily fortunate to have the ability to witness this occasion,” Melnyk advised Area.com.
To seize the scene, Melnyk used a Canon R6 Mark II paired with a Canon RF 20mm F1.4 L VCM lens.
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“These photographs weren’t that tough to acquire due to new digital camera know-how that permits me to get these photographs handheld. The mixture of a quick lens and a high-performing low-light digital camera makes it quite simple.” Melnyk stated.
Simply this week, Melnyk captured one other dynamic show throughout a Nov. 17 flight from Calgary to London, photographing the northern lights as he flew over northeastern Alberta and north of Hudson Bay.
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