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Posted
  • Location: Maidstone, Kent
  • Location: Maidstone, Kent
Sounds good hope you enjoy it. :) Not much chance of my cloud clearing i don't think.

thanks. The detail is incredible looks very alien-like :)

An amazing display so far tonight - if I didn't know they were NLC's I'd be seriously freaked out! Look like craters from the moon all over the northwestern sky! :) B)

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  • Location: East Devon
  • Location: East Devon

Wow sounds impressive

Just found that you can make them out on these cams from Germany for anyone who's clouded out like me http://www.iap-kborn.de/Overview.313.0.html?&L=1

Edit: Wow great pics!

tiniest tiniest fast moving gap in the clouds here and I think I could just make them out and the sky looked brighter than usual too.. B) and now a blustery rain shower is moving in!

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  • Location: Maidstone, Kent
  • Location: Maidstone, Kent

The crater-type overhead ones are fast fading, leaving the standard wavy ones to the northwest (sorry I don't know the technical names! B) )

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couple more

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

Crackin display now !!

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  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W
  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W

Too much cloud to see anything usefull although there is a hint of 'something' above the murk.

Keep the great photos coming cos it looks like that's all I'll see tonight B)

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  • Location: LANCS. 12 miles NE of Preston at the SW corner of the Bowland Fells. 550ft, 170m approx.
  • Location: LANCS. 12 miles NE of Preston at the SW corner of the Bowland Fells. 550ft, 170m approx.

Grr. Cloud here.

However you can tell there's something going on as there's a bright white/ blue light through the clouds. If only they'd break.

Wonderful pics from you lucky people.

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

Just a couple...

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  • Location: Solihull, West Midlands. UK
  • Location: Solihull, West Midlands. UK

One from tonight. Wow lightning shots (See Storms/Convection thread P17) AND NLCs in the space of less than three hours? :lol: Gosh! I feel lucky tonight. :)

One pic but not as good or as vivid as the ones I took two nights ago. Had to be quick as cloud is fast moving in from the south.

Phil.

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

Not sure if the link to the pics in my post above is working so here are attachments. Maybe a mod could the post 84 above please.

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  • Location: Rushden, Northants
  • Location: Rushden, Northants

Hi guys

Just wanted to pick some brains.

I happened to be awake at about half three this a.m. (don't ask!), and, on the offchance, looked out the window.

It was fairly cloudy, but there was a whole load of blue-ish light to the north west that I could see in the clear slots behind 'ordinary' clouds.

Was this NLC? If so, it was incredibly bright, even through the cloud cover!

thanks

-PBS-

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  • Location: Nr Appleby in Westmorland
  • Location: Nr Appleby in Westmorland

I imagine it was simply dawn breaking. I noticed the other night after a late night in the office that the sky started brightening noticeably from the north-west round to the north-east (where you'd expect it to at this time of year).

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
I happened to be awake at about half three this a.m. (don't ask!), and, on the offchance, looked out the window.

It was fairly cloudy, but there was a whole load of blue-ish light to the north west that I could see in the clear slots behind 'ordinary' clouds.

Was this NLC? If so, it was incredibly bright, even through the cloud cover!

OON may have been correct that it was just the dawn breaking but NLC's were observed before dawn this morning*. If they were as bright as last night then yes, they may have been NLC's

* Photo from NLC observers forum taken in Holland before dawn this morning.

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OON... surely it didn't take you all night to clear up the cat litter?

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  • Location: Nr Appleby in Westmorland
  • Location: Nr Appleby in Westmorland

Well, there's a first. I may have been right? There's normally no doubt. If they were NLCs at that time of the morning, then they'd have been over the north-east I'd have thought.

When your nozzle is the size of mine, it takes a long time for the suction to work its magic.

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  • Location: Warminster, Wiltshire
  • Location: Warminster, Wiltshire
this display really is something - not particularly bright yet, but overhead nonetheless! Never seen it cover so much of the sky before :)

Yes it was a stunning sky last night :D . Quite distracting to be driving Northwards at about 22.30 :rolleyes: and it was quite eerie with low, scuddy fractal, cumulus racing across beneath the NLCs.

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  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W
  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W

Heads up!

There seems to be a hint of NLC in the NNW region of the sky tonight. The structure is quite fine and very faint although the elevation is reasonable up to about 30deg. Going to stay up another hour or so to see if anything better develops.

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  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W
  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W

Sorry folks, it's a no show so far :mellow:

Guess that's what keeps us all going! :)

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  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W
  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W

Got it wrong last night :lol: but!

A brilliant display on the go tonight!

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More pics to follow :lol:

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  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W
  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W

Has to be last pic I'm afraid - have to get some sleep!

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  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W
  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W

something is messing up the image links! maybe a mod can edit the rubbish please?

Try again!

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  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'
  • Location: Sth Staffs/Shrops 105m/345' & NW Snowdonia 219m/719'

Nice shots Frog, I guessed there was a display going on as the few breaks in the cloud were far brighter than normal here. Unfortunately not enough breaks to get a clear view though.

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  • Location: East Devon
  • Location: East Devon

Wow nice pics there frogesque!

All the way down here they could only be seen quite low in the sky tonight.. I decided to try a different spot than from my home with a better view although there was a bit of light pollution.

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  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W
  • Location: Kingdom of Fife: 56.2º N, 3.2º W

Love the atmospheric shots Storm! I've gotten too lazy to take the car out at that time of night - must try harder :rofl:

Kar: was very lucky to get a clear view myself as we'd had a thunderstorm pass over only an hour before and it's tipping down again this morning

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  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Location: Edinburgh

A lovely display of noctilucent clouds from Edinburgh last night, the same ones as seen in the lovely shots from frogesque and StormMad26. I drove up the nearby Blackford Hill to get some shots across the city. The added bonus is that the dark clouds on the horizon are the cumulonimbus anvils from the early evening thunderstorm here, but no lightning visible while I was up taking photos mad.gif Enjoy the pictures!

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Panoramas across Edinburgh, with Arthur's Seat on the right and the castle near the centre.

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Single shots of the middle part of the display

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A zoom in on some of the structure

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Edinburgh, anvil and noctilucent clouds

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