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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 arctic latitudes, 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, 2005,
2006, 2007,
and 2008 |
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Photographer,
Location |
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Dave Lillis,
Limerick city, Ireland
Jun. 16, 2009 |
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While driving
home last night from a friends house, I glanced at the northern
horizon only to see a nice noctilucent cloud display, I
had a Canon 300D with me so I took a few pics (time 00.22-00.27
in the morning), this is the best I've seen so far this
year, fairly bright and active, hopefully we'll get more
like it. |
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Dave
Gradwell,
Birr, Ireland
Jun. 16, 2009 |
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#2, more |
There was a
nice display of NLCs near Birr Ireland on the morning of
June 16th.
Photo
details: Canon 350D 30 sec exposure |
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Paul Evans,
Larne, Northern Ireland
Jun. 16, 2009 |
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#2, #3,
#4, more |
This display
started high and wide as the sunset became twilight - initially
30deg high and 60deg wide - some other much lower cloud
around so difficult to gauge the full extent of the display
but it was a big one!
Photo
details: Sony A100 DSLR, 50mm f1.7 lens @ f4 4-8
secs exposure ISO 400 |
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André Müller,
Bath, UK
Jun. 15, 2009 |
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First NLCs display this year from Bath!
Images taken with a Nikon D90 and 15s@5.6 with different focal length.
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Aurimas Dirse,
Vilnius, Lithuania
Jun. 14, 2009 |
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Photo details: Canon PowerShot S5 IS, 15s exposure, f2.7, ISO 100
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Grant Privett,
Fovant, Wiltshire.
Jun. 15, 2009 |
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Quite a bright and extensive display. The bright star seen is Capella. The exposure was 60s with a tripod mounted Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ7 - not a DSLR. Some filamentary detail which brightened while I watched. Image taken 11:20pm BST. A nice end to the day after an evening at the cinema.
The view point is looking north from Fovant over the edge of Salisbury Plain.
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Ted Karlsson,
Malmö, Skåne, Sweden.
Jun. 15, 2009 |
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I was about to go to bed just before 01:00 when I saw this cloud in my bedroom window. I'm not 100% sure if its a noctilucent cloud 'cause I've never seen one live but it was very beautiful and it lingered on for 20 minutes or before it faded away.
Used my old Canon 300D with 20s of exposure at 800ISO.
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more images: from
Steve Wainwright of Swansea South Wales UK
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