The fanciful scenery of the Earth seen from the airplane cockpit

With the camera in hand, the pilot of Cargolux Airlines recorded beautiful images around the world from the airplane cockpit.

This very beautiful cabin image was recorded by Van Heijst on a flight from Luxembourg (Russia) to Komatsu, Japan in April 2016.The photo captured the moment of the northern aurora, the rising sun, and the sparkling galaxy.

The combination of galactic light and aurora creates spectacular views, like hypnotic viewers.This image was recorded from the US-China flight in February 2016.

On a flight from Johannesburg (South Africa) to Nairobi (Kenya) in May 2012, Van Heijst caught a thunderstorm with lightning that illuminated the sky.

The cockpit of the 747 is covered in light purple when passing through the Pacific Ocean in May 2013.Van Heijst is a pilot working for Cargolux, he had the opportunity to fly around the world with the Boeing 747.

Zhengzhou City, China becomes sparkling by millions of electric light bulbs.Photos taken in May 5/2015.

Beautiful purple sunset setting in Myanmar when viewed from the 747-8 cockpit in February 2015.

Quiet moments in a sunset in the Yukon sky (Canada).Van Heijst took this photo in October 2013, when he flew from Anchorage (Alaska) to Chicago (USA).Van's colleague then was reading the magazine intently.

Moonlight illuminates the night sky, when Van Heijst is flying to Siberia in August 2016.Van admits the position has allowed him to admire the beautiful scenes that many people have no chance to see.

In this photo it is possible to see the full moon with light shining on a snow covered area in Canada.Van Heijst said that on beautiful nights, bright moonlight could shine everywhere.The lake and the small rivers, cities and villages below are covered with soft silver light from the moon, creating an unprecedented spectacular scene.

The Northern aurora is the image Van Heijst often encountered during his night flights.

This amazing image was taken in September 2015 when flying over the Bering Strait between Russia and Alaska.

And this is one of Van Heijst's 'offices' .The buttons that control buttons, may make you change your mind that office work on the computer is complicated.Van Heijst said this photo was taken in 2011. New aircraft now use computer control panels.This helps reduce the number of pilots to 2.