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Posted by: Stu Jun 18 2009, 05:52 AM

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

Posted by: Astro0 Jun 18 2009, 06:36 AM

Beautiful. What time of night and morning?

Posted by: ngunn Jun 18 2009, 08:02 AM

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.

Posted by: Sunspot Jun 18 2009, 08:16 AM

I saw them too... from North Cambridgeshire

Posted by: Stu Jun 18 2009, 03:15 PM

Full report and more pics...

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

Posted by: Ant103 Jun 18 2009, 09:03 PM

Hi Stu,

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

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 :
http://www.db-prods.net/blog/2009/06/03/nuages-noctulescents-a-rotterdam/

The second time, early morning too :
http://www.db-prods.net/blog/2009/06/05/nuages-noctulescents-2nde-edition/

The third time, morning of the 13th June:
http://www.db-prods.net/blog/2009/06/13/nlc-noctulescents-clouds-a-rotterdam-episode-3/

But the fourth time was the best for now. In the late evening of the 16th this time A very strong display, and I was amazed by the surface they took in the sky, very close to zenith
http://www.db-prods.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/nlc-rotterdam-160609-02-v2.jpg

http://www.db-prods.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/nlc-rotterdam-160609-pano3-v2.jpg
And a bit of lightpainting
http://www.db-prods.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/nlc-160609-lightpainting-v2.jpg
And more http://www.db-prods.net/blog/2009/06/17/nlc-a-rotterdam-cette-fois-ci-ca-deconne-pas/

Hope you will enjoy it .

Posted by: ustrax Jun 19 2009, 09:43 AM

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...
Stu phone home!

Posted by: Stu Jun 19 2009, 01:07 PM

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.

Posted by: Sunspot Jul 12 2009, 10:04 PM

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.

Posted by: Stu Jul 12 2009, 10:20 PM

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! :-(

Posted by: Sunspot Jul 12 2009, 10:30 PM

Yep

Although by the time I got my camera sorted, the display had subsided a quite a bit.

Posted by: imipak Jul 16 2009, 06:45 PM

Not the greatest image in the world; my fault, not nature's.

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

Posted by: tty Jul 16 2009, 09:05 PM

Some were visible over southern Sweden last night. None tonight though, at least not yet.

Posted by: Bjorn Jonsson Aug 1 2009, 01:12 PM

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:

Posted by: john_s Aug 1 2009, 02:56 PM

That can't be Iceland- there are trees in the foreground!