From the album: Birmingham Weather
June 17 2009
Slightly altering the settings reveals a clearer image (auto contrast in Picasa 3)
Strange aqua coloured, iridescent cloudy thing due north! 2.45 am
In three years overlooking the same piece of sky, i have never witnessed anything like this!
Can not have been the Aurora
any thoughts?
-have been reliably informed that this is a Noctilucent Cloud( polar mesospheric clouds - the highest clouds in the Earth's atmosphere.)
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Cancel the search for overgrown, flesheating ochids then....
Birmingham, England