In the early November sky

What are we seeing here? Nine photos, the first (top left) taken at 16:01, the last (bottom right) taken at 16:08 yesterday, so a few minutes after sunset. Looking due west from Chynów, this looks to me like a pair of military fast jets, with afterburners on. One seems to have an old-school jet that's leaving a smoky trail. Flying close together when I first spotted them, they were slowly moving apart. Remember, seven minutes separate the first image from the last. What do you think?

Below: at the extreme end of my 70-300mm zoom lens and at the limits of how much I can blow up an image using Photoshop. I was curious as to what was flying beyond the treeline, just out of sight. Sounded too big to be a small helicopter... Turns out it was an unusual two-ship formation, a helicopter and an aeroplane. The former, a Robinson R44 Raven II, registration SP-OMG, the latter an Aero AT-3, registration SP-PPL, which belongs to the Warsaw Aeroclub. Two nice regs! After they flew past, I opened the ADS-B Exchange app on my phone to get those details. No cut-and-paste trickery here; these two really were flying that close together. Could have been a photoshoot? Lovely day for it! About 20 minutes later, the Raven flew back the way it came, this time unescorted.

Below: a Bell 206 Jet Ranger, flying west to east over Chynów. I can't make out the registration from this distance. Not the Polish police – their Jet Ranger has a turret-mounted camera in the nose.

Below: aerial feline – Pacyfik sitting comfortably in a nest in a tree in my garden. All my kittens are as sure-footed up trees as they are darting around my kitchen.

Below: watching today's sunset from my bedroom window, Scrapper, Pacyfik, Czestuś and Céleste. Photo exposed for the foreground, so the sunset's somewhat washed out.

Now let's see it as it was, exposed for the sky, vibrance and saturation untouched, image out of the box.

This time last year:
Autumn joy, continued

This time six years ago:
Recycling my father's possessions

This time seven years ago:
You can always go downtown

This time nine years ago:
Opinions vs facts – our media today

This time ten years ago:
Judging PO's eight years in power

This time 11 years ago
Cloudless, 18C – the beauty of Polish autumn

This time 12 years ago: 
Call 19115: Warsaw Fix-my-Street

This time 14 years ago:
Vapour trails at sunset

This time 15 years ago:
Autumnal blues