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Observing
tips: Look
west 30 to 60 minutes after sunset when
the Sun has dipped 6o to 16o below the horizon.
If you see luminous blue-white tendrils spreading across the sky,
you've probably spotted a noctilucent
cloud. Although
noctilucent clouds appear most often at high latitudes such as Scandinavia
and Canada, they have been sighted
in recent years as far south as Colorado, Utah and Virginia. NLCs
are seasonal, appearing most often in late spring and summer. In
the northern hemisphere, the best time to look would be between
mid-May and the end of August. See also 2003,
2004 and 2006. |
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Photographer, Location |
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Comments |
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Jan Koeman,
Kloetinge, the Netherlands
Jun. 15 |
#1,
#2, #3 |
Just after midnight
there was a wonderful display of noctilucent clouds in the
northern sky. They seem to move around at high speed at
an altitude of 50 miles. I observed these magic blue clouds
from my roof-window.
Photo
details: Nikon
D70 at 400 iso and 12-24 or 80-200 mm lens. Exposure
around 4 seconds.
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Olaf
SQUARRA,
Rostock / Northern Germany
Jun. 15 |
#1,
#2, more
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NLC for two
nights one after the other seen from Germany.
Photo
details: Canon
EOS 300D, 400 ASA, 6 seconds. |
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Eva Seidenfaden,
Trier, Germany
Jun. 14 |
#1,
#2, more |
Noctilucent clouds are extremely rare at Trier - and these were very bright, coming up right before midnight, the first of this summer. They were glowing as if they were lit from within! Even the moon could not outshine them.
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Michiel
de Boer,
Netherlands, Gulpen (near Maastricht) The time was near Midnight.
Jun. 14 |
#1,
#2, #3,
more |
These are my
first photo's of NLC and it is my second observation of
it. First I had doubt if I saw cirrus clouds or NLC, but
when it got darker the clouds got their typical look. The
first photo shows an orange glow of the city lights: it
was fairly dark, but the NLC was still glowing.
Photo
details: Canon
350D, ISO 200, variable exposure times (around 15 seconds).
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Daniel
Ricke,
Lehrte near Hannover, Northern Germany
Jun. 15 |
#1 |
Picture is
taken from the highest level I was able to get to: a roof-window.
Loveliest NLC I have seen so far.
Photo
details: Sony
DSC-F828, f2.2, ISO 200, 10 seconds |
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Koen
Miskotte,
Ermelo, The Netherlands
Jun. 15 |
#1,
#2, more |
A nice display
of NLC's above the Netherlands on 14 and 15 june.
Photo
details: Canon
10D with 2.8/28-80 zoom (I) and a Canon EF 2.8/15 mm
fish eye. |
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Casper ter Kuile,
De Bilt (near Utrecht), the Netherlands
Jun. 14 |
#1,
#2 |
I
observed this fine display of the NLC's together with my
neaghbor and meteorologist Jacob Kuiper of the Dutch National
Weather Service who is on one of the images pointing to
the NLC's.
Photo
details: Canon
Ixus-700, 400 ISO, 4 seconds.
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André Müller,
Aachen, Germany
Jun. 14 |
#1,
more |
The last two nights
there were some bright NLC displays over most of Europe.
Photo
details: The image is stitched from three single
shots with my Canon
Powershot A95. 50 ISO, 15s, 2.8 @ 21:42h UT
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Henk Bril,
Nieuwstadt, The Netherlands
Jun. 14 |
#1,
#2, #3,
more |
Marvellous noctilucent
clouds!
Photo
details: Canon
Eos 350D. Pictures taken at 21.36 - 22.07 UT.
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Johan op den Dries,
Sneek, Netherlands
Jun. 15 |
#1,
more |
Photo details:
Sony
W1 digital camera, 100 ASA, 13s exposure
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Olaf SQUARRA,
Rostock,Germany
Jun. 13 |
#1,
#2, more |
NLCs are back! Enclosed
images are taken in Rostock,Germany on 2005-06-13 to the
14th. It is always worth to use a telephoto lens, too. The
animated GIF shows fast movements and changings in NLC height.
Images taken within 19 minutes starting from 22:53UTC.
Photo
details: Canon
EOS 300D, lens 4.5/200mm, each 10 s exposure at 400
ASA. 1x unsharp masking The other image is taken with 2.8/50mm,
400 ASA, exposure 6s; 23:15UTC on 2005-06-13 (Capella on
the left). The houses are illuminated by street lamps 1x
unsharp masking.
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Martin Stirland,
Winterton On Sea, Norfolk, England
Jun. 12 |
#1,
#2, more |
The cloud display
started due north around dusk and went on till after 1am
GMT.
Photo
details: Canon
20D, 800 ASA, 6s exposure, from 12 to 12.30 am GMT over
looking the North Sea
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2004 and 2006 |
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