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Noctilucent Cloud displays..., 'Tis the season to be NLC spotting...
Stu
post Jun 18 2009, 05:52 AM
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Nice display over Kendal last night / this morning..

http://twitpic.com/7ovsx

http://twitpic.com/7ovvv

http://twitpic.com/7ovx5

http://twitpic.com/7ovz8

http://twitpic.com/7ow0o


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post Jun 18 2009, 06:36 AM
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Beautiful. What time of night and morning?
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post Jun 18 2009, 08:02 AM
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I watched the first half of the show from North Wales. The display covered the northern half of the sky when revealed by fading twilight around 10:30, retreating to a bright strip with a fairly sharp edge a few degrees above the northern horizon shortly after midnight. It was the best I've seen from here.
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post Jun 18 2009, 08:16 AM
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I saw them too... from North Cambridgeshire
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post Jun 18 2009, 03:15 PM
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Full report and more pics...

http://cumbriansky.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/nlc-seen-at-last


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post Jun 18 2009, 09:03 PM
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Hi Stu,

Ow yeah!!! Very nice pics smile.gif. You caught a very strong NLC display. wink.gif

I don't know if I've said this before but I'm in Rotterdam since 5 months as an exchange student (Erasmus). And the latitude is very favorable to catch NLC displays.

The very first I'v took, in the early morning of the 3rd of June :


The second time, early morning too :


The third time, morning of the 13th June:


But the fourth time was the best for now. In the late evening of the 16th this time wink.gif A very strong display, and I was amazed by the surface they took in the sky, very close to zenith ohmy.gif



And a bit of lightpainting biggrin.gif

And more here

Hope you will enjoy it smile.gif.


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post Jun 19 2009, 09:43 AM
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Probably nothing but...is Stu OK? Haven't read a word from him here, at his blog or twitter since the clouds story and there was LRO launch yesterday... unsure.gif
Stu phone home!


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post Jun 19 2009, 01:07 PM
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All's well here Rui, just busy with new book project and work... odd shifts in a care home, and coming home often means just flopping onto sofa - after a good shower - and vegging. Lots of catch-up blogging to do this weekend. smile.gif


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post Jul 12 2009, 10:04 PM
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Anyone else see them this evening, the most impressive display i've seen so far, noticed them when I went out to see the ISS flyby. Will post some pics later.
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post Jul 12 2009, 10:20 PM
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Alright, stop it! It's cloudy here, ruining my chances of seeing the shuttle and ET... now you tell me there's a big NLC display too?!?!?!?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! :-(


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post Jul 12 2009, 10:30 PM
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Yep smile.gif

Although by the time I got my camera sorted, the display had subsided a quite a bit.
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post Jul 16 2009, 06:45 PM
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Not the greatest image in the world; my fault, not nature's.

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Memo to self: read the manual about the manual-settings mode for camera. Buy cheap tripod. Possibly try learning how to use them?



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post Jul 16 2009, 09:05 PM
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Some were visible over southern Sweden last night. None tonight though, at least not yet.
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post Aug 1 2009, 01:12 PM
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A lot of NLCs has been visible from Iceland in the past two weeks or so. They have usually been visible on nights of clear skies. This is what I saw last night:

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post Aug 1 2009, 02:56 PM
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That can't be Iceland- there are trees in the foreground!
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