These were seen this morning, 4:30 PST. Last night we saw a dimmer display after sunset.

Thanks to the stories in SpaceWeather.com, I decided to stay up all night watching late night TV! To my surprize, at early twilight, the sky was alive with wonderful Noctilucent Clouds. Thanks SpaceWeather!

This picture was taken on 7/3/08 looking to the WNW from Pinedale WY USA -- the clouds are low on the horizon and poor image quality but definitely NL clouds. Taken with Sony DSC-F707, 10 sec exposure (F2.0, ISO 100), regrettably without a steady platform.

I went out last night to photograph the moon with Saturn, Mars and Regulus. In this photo, a car was traveling away from me, and the red tail lights give the impression of the driver stopping to take in the beautiful twilight scene. One should always break for planetary alignments! While out, I noticed what I thought at first were cirrus clouds low in the north in an otherwise clear sky. As the night deepened, the clouds remained nearly in place and glowed with a pale blue, one of the telltale signs of noctilucent clouds. What a bonus! A conjunction and for me, a rare sighting of noctilucent clouds on the same night. The textures were amazing. The small green spots in the bottom part of the cloud photo are fireflies. The mosquitos didn't record, but oh boy, they were there too.

Noctilucent clouds show continue ! I observed NLCs last night. After a turbulent day with violent thunderstorms and showers, the skies not cleared and from past experience. I looked about 23 local time trough my skylook I see low above horizont noctilucent clouds. Compared to the few and bright NLCs from Jun 26, these are mellow and faint. It is the best of the seasons NLCs.

Photo details: exp. 5-8 sec, iso 400-800, Nikon D50 camera

While fellow amateur astronomer Joe Silverman and I were setting up our tents and telescopes at a dark sky site (just west of Ottawa, Ontario) on Sunday evening, we were treated to a beautiful display of NLCs!!! After all these years, this is my first definite sighting of these rare clouds from 45 degrees latitude. I was very surprised and pleased to see them along the treeline near the north horizon!! Needless to say, I rushed for my cameras and took this photo with my 30D (20 sec exposure, ISO 200 with the 35mm lens at f/4.0). I'm sure that the excellent sky transparency that we were fortunate to have on this night was helpful. These delicate wisps floating almost at the edge of space were nicely visible, and would quickly change their shapes.