This beats any sunset anyday!

This beats any sunset anyday!

The picture shows Noctilucent Clouds captured from the top of a hill 3 km from my home in Ringsted, Denmark.

Noctilucent clouds are ice-crystals in altitudes of 70-90km that reflects the sunlight when the sun has a certain position below the horizon.
In Denmark we can usually observe the phenomena during June and July a couple of hours before the sun gets up in the morning or after it sets in the evening... this is by the way my first sighting after I became aware of the phenomena.

The picture was taken on 21-Jul-2009 just before midnight (approxemately 2 hours after sunset). The panorama covers the horizon all the from west all the way to north-east.
The pictures (10 of them) was stiched together using the Photomerge Panorama function in Photoshop Elements 7.0

Camera: Canon EOS 500D
Lens: Tamron AF 28-300 F/3.5-6.3 XR Di
Focal lenth: 28mm @ F3.5
Exposure: 6 seconds, ISO200

I hope you like it.
Regards,
Kaare