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19 years 8 months ago #3602 by PMU
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Were those noctilucent clouds that were visible across the
northern sky last night around 11.00pm.

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19 years 8 months ago #3604 by albertw
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Yep. Ronan rang me last night to tell me to go and look but unfortunately it was cloudy in Dublin.

Cheers,
~Al

Albert White MSc FRAS
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19 years 8 months ago #3605 by michaeloconnell
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Same here. Fair play to Ronan for ringing around. Unfortunately it was cloudy here in Kildare also.

Michael

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19 years 8 months ago #3606 by spculleton
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Looks like I got lucky again! I got to see them last night at around 11.30, but by 12.30 (or even earlier) they were totally clouded over. Very interesting display that stretched at least 25 degrees above the horizon and had some delicate whispy structures.

Shane Culleton.

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19 years 8 months ago #3607 by galwayskywatchers
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Yes a truly beautiful display, at first a got a text from one of the astronomy lads here in galway at 1115 saying, "is that Noctilucent clouds covering the sky", i thought , a bit early yet, but when i looked out, Wow, id say 40 degrees up, 90 degrees wide.So i rang evry astro guy i knew even Terry.

The outer edge looked like a very thick plane trail, very silvery colour, surely a Noc. Cloud.Although my dad the Met man at knock airport says high cirrus, but a seasoned Noc. cloud observer knew better and as it got darker after 12 i proved him wrong. Roll on tonight. i saw one guy in Glengarnock Scotland report an elevation up to 75 degrees. www.nlcnet.co.uk/nlcreps.htm#july

Ronan Newman
Galway Astronomy Club

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19 years 8 months ago - 14 years 9 months ago #3608 by dave_lillis
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Hi All,
I was lucky here last night, as I saw this noctilucent cloud, I noiticed on the way back from my brothers house..
I have to admit, I thought it was cirrus cloud or contrails at first, but I was surprised at how striking and luminous it looked and there was no other cloud above or below it, its southern edge was near Jupiter.
I though this stuff was supposed to be hard to see. :?: This thing took over the whole western side of the sky...
Heres a pic i got of it from a back window of my house with a handheld canon 300d, exposure = 1.3 secs at F5.6 using iso1600.
Note how bright it is compared to the street light .





Is this what your talking about (still not fully convinced).

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