Noctilucent Clouds

[maidstone weather]

I had my first ever sighting of this rare phenomenon last night. They were viewable from at least 22:00 GMT (when i first spotted them) but they had completely vanished by 22:15 GMT. Still i managed to get a couple of shots to my north-northwest.

[Evening thunder]

Nicely captured there First sighting then just like mine from early yesterday morning.

unfortunately some thick cirrostratus cloud spread in at just the wrong time down here last night.

[frostyjoe]

surprisingly we would be still bright at 22:15 and wouldnt get dark to around 23:00 , which is quite funny due to the short distance betweeen here and kent.

[Azores Hi]

Excellent! Saw this myself last night walking back from the pub. Not too common this far south.

[maidstone weather]

surprisingly we would be still bright at 22:15 and wouldnt get dark to around 23:00 , which is quite funny due to the short distance betweeen here and kent.

Just to clarify, it was 22:00 GMT, i.e. 23:00 BST :lol:

But yes I have noticed a big difference between sunlight in Kent and the Isle of Skye on summer evenings

[NL]

To much cloud cover up here to see any NCL's last night but pretty good display you had down yours MW well captured.

There are a couple of theories on why NCL are on the increase and sightings as far south as 40 degrees are being observed.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/03/noctilucent_clouds/

[kar999]

Nice show in Latvia this evening. Maybe something here later...

http://nlcnet.proboards.com/index.cgi?boar...&thread=394

[SteveB]

Rare sight indeed. Well captured

[Phil UK]

Third time lucky as they say, well here's some from this morning (and I mean EARLY morning!)

Taken at 02:59am

Taken at 03:06am

And another with a crescent Moon thrown in for good measure...

Taken at 03:23am

Have to admit that these are better than my last two efforts. Problem with living in the middle of a town is that you don't get the full effects unlike some of the more rural shots I've seen on here.

Phil.