~ Venus & Jupiter at 30,000 ft on a flight from New Zealand ~

On the evening of the 16th November we boarded a plane for a flight from Christchurch in New Zealand to the Gold Coast in Australia.
 
What a wonderful surprise I got when I looked out my plane window and saw the beautiful colours of sunset in the evening sky with the brilliant planets Venus and Jupiter in the western sky with the constellation of Scorpius…it looked absolutely stunning!
 
When I wiggled around in my seat I also spied the constellation of the Southern Cross (Crux) with the pointers that was upside down in the south western sky, the colour gradient from a light blue sky to the inky black sky above the plane was quite breathtaking…
 
The images were taken with a Canon G7X Mark11 camera on manual focus and ISO 1600. To capture the images I had to put a jacket over my head to block out all the lights from the interior of the plane…I got many strange looks from the other passengers, but I just smiled and kept taking the pictures :-)

​The Southern Cross upside down (inverted)
Going down in the south-western sky at a height of over 30,000 ft
​with the stunning colours of sunset in the late evening sky.

The bright stars Alpha and Beta Centauri, which are the pointers to the Cross, are also on display to the right.
What a glorious sight it was from my aeroplane window :-)