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Noctilucent cloud ???? yes or no


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Ignore the very very bad picture focus but i was just packing up for the night and the camera battery was very low . However is this Noctilucent clouds NNE from Cranwell - taken about 2.30 am 

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9aHac2P5RgVanRfcEJndHZJYVE/view?usp=sharing

 

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Looks like em to me Clive, can't say I have seen them in the flesh before.  Only photos... ?

Right time of night to see them... They are about 50 miles up, so will be high enough to be lit up by the sun...

nice piccy!

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24 minutes ago, Tweedledee said:

That looks lovely. Was it really that blue to the eye?

Yep - the picture does not do it justice and doesn't show the size - about N to ENE if that makes sense. It looked like fine white cotton wisps on a blue back ground glittering in the night and below was the orange glow of the first sun's rays. 

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Now that you mention it Clive.......

 

I was up for work at silly o'clock this morning ,( 03:30 )

and i had a look out of our east facing window and spotted what looked like

the 'tail end' of a display. It was strong twilight, and there was quite a bit of cirrus, 

and a few jet contrails mixed in.

But i did think there was some Nocti stuff in there too.

I'm up again tomorrow even earlier. Hopefully see them again......?

 

Great image by the way. :thumbsup:

 

 

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1 hour ago, Bino-viewer said:

Now that you mention it Clive.......

 

I was up for work at silly o'clock this morning ,( 03:30 )

and i had a look out of our east facing window and spotted what looked like

the 'tail end' of a display. It was strong twilight, and there was quite a bit of cirrus, 

and a few jet contrails mixed in.

But i did think there was some Nocti stuff in there too.

I'm up again tomorrow even earlier. Hopefully see them again......?

 

Great image by the way. :thumbsup:

 

 

Hope you seem them - clear skies

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