The scientist in me gets very excited to discover something new, never seen before, and not easily explained, either.
What I found is that imaging the night sky with an infrared camera emphasizes some features. The most intriguing part are those very thin, light clouds in the atmosphere, which one cannot see with the naked eye or a regular camera. These clouds are delicate waves of what is likely clouds of ice crystals in the upper atmosphere. Transparent to visible light, but reflecting Earth’s infrared radiation, which only an infrared camera can see, and only at night.
With reference to noctilucent clouds (which we can only observe in particular locations at a specific time of night), I named these infralucent clouds, because they shine only in infrared light and at night. They add a wispy fabric to fill the otherwise empty night sky to create otherworldly views.
With this collection of images I want to share that ethereal sight and enable people to see infralucent clouds in their full beauty, creating awareness that there are many things we do not perceive, cannot easily explain, but that are real and ever present.
Galactic Tree
Jupiter Ascending
Galactic Clouds
Halibut Space Clouds 3
World's End
Milky Way Rising
Fleeting Path
Aquinnah Rock
