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NLC's!
- martinastro
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Last night i got my very first display of Noctilucent clouds in 2006! My sister and i were walking in the country before dawn when at 02.45 we spotted a very faint, diffuse white glowing NLC formation very low near the horizon stretching from the N to NE sky through sections of Auriga, Perseus and Pisces. Type 1 brigntness and type 1 Veil like structure. The brightening dawn sky soon washed them out. I got my images up on the UK NLC homepage were i noticed that another observer from England also seen a possible display at night fall. Got 2 images at ISO200/5 sec exposure...
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coruscations attending the whole length of the luminosity, giving to the phenomena the aspect of a wrathful messenger, and not that of a tranquil body pursuing a harmless course..comet of 1680
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Unfortunately, I had no camera with me... Any ideas? NLC's?
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Martin - myself and Fiona were in Galway last weekend and on the Saturday night, about 11.20 to midnight, we looked to the north and the horizon line was a fairly bright silvery white with what looked like typical twilight colours above it. I *thought* it may have been noctilucent clouds but I wasn't sure. It could have been another atmospheric effect but it was definately brighter than I'd usually been accustomed to. What we saw was similar to your images but it more silvery/white.
Unfortunately, I had no camera with me... Any ideas? NLC's?
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Dave
For what it's worth it certainly sounds like NLCs to me!
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To me it looks like a nice sunset well into the twilight with typical bright blue, white and yellow horizon hues.
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I thought that perhaps the silvery band might be NLC and that the image just didn't show them very luminously.
I've stared long as this part of the image, I just dont see what I'd expect NLC to look like, this looks like a blending of the sky.
Its possible that the image is too underexposed to pick up very faint NLCs, I just dont see them here.
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