The following panoramic composite images were taken using the "Camera" app on my Apple iPad mini 6, set for "Pano" mode. The iPad was mounted on a tripod located at the uppermost level of a seven-story parking garage. The appearance of the sky changed a lot in a little less than 15 minutes.
The first composite image pans from the southeast (left), to the west, and around to the north (right).
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| NOV 5 2026 | 4:10 PM EST | Panoramic view. (14536 x 3662 pixels.) |
Panoramic view from south to north.
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| 05 NOV 2026 | 4:13 PM EST | Panoramic view. (15860 x 3523 pixels.) |
Panoramic view from southwest to northeast.
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| 05 NOV 2026 | 4:21 PM EST | Panoramic view. (16202 × 3680 pixels.) |
The last composite image is a "mini-Pano" that shows detail in the clouds near the Sun, panning from southwest to west.
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| 05 NOV 2026 | 4:23 PM EST | Panoramic view. (9442 × 3846 pixels.) |
Wind (mph), Weather and Sky Condition
"Wind (mph)," "Weather" and "Sky Cond." are highlighted by red rectangles in the following excerpt from a table of three-day weather observations for KDCA on 05 November 2026 nearest the times when I recorded the panoramic composite images.
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| Source Credit: KDCA | National Weather Service |
The clouds reported under "sky condition" were all below 6,500 feet. In the temperate region low level clouds occur from 0 to 6,500 feet, therefore most of the cumuliform clouds shown in my panoramic images are probably species/varieties of stratocumulus (Sc).
The Backstory
"The best camera is the one you have with you" is an old saying about photography attributed to Chase Jarvis. Soon after I recorded the "road lapse" featured in "Right turn on red in Virginia" (my last blog post) the nearly featureless gray overcast sky started looking more interesting. I decided to shoot some panoramic images using the iPad mini 6 that I had used to remotely control my GoPro action camera.
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