Noctilucent Cloud season 2022

[Polar Maritime]

Looks like there was quite a show in the far North last night..

Edited July 29, 2022 by Polar Maritime

[mushymanrob]

3 hours ago, Polar Maritime said:

Looks like there was quite a show in the far North last night..

yes, its always the same... great displays, but nowt much here.

strange that theres been very little in the evenings but a decent amount in the morning..

[Polar Maritime]

3 hours ago, mushymanrob said:

yes, its always the same... great displays, but nowt much here.

strange that theres been very little in the evenings but a decent amount in the morning..

Yes agree Rob, No idea why.. Years past we would see some late evening as you say.

[Sprites]

Northern Lights And Noctilucent Clouds

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[Cheshire Freeze]

Very late in the season display this morning

[Weather-history]

Lovely display this morning

[Weather-history]

Feel sorry for those who spent most of the summer at all hours hoping to capture a display and when you think the season is over now, one of the season's better displays shows up and you miss it.

Outside the lingering twilight season as well at least here

[mushymanrob]

4 hours ago, Weather-history said:

Feel sorry for those who spent most of the summer at all hours hoping to capture a display and when you think the season is over now, one of the season's better displays shows up and you miss it.

Outside the lingering twilight season as well at least here

Yep, thats me!..... i think most of us had written off chances this year, but yet again an early dawn display appeared taking many by surprise.

Theres absolutely nothing on the daisy chart that would have suggested such a display for us.

But im not stopping up all night, have work etc.. its just tough luck.

[reef]

6 hours ago, CreweCold said:

Very late in the season display this morning

Another one missed here yet again as we had thick fog this time! It has been a nightmare this year, without fail it has been cloudy or foggy!

[Sprites]

Nlc Clouds Over Halesowen

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[Arnie Pie]

51 minutes ago, Sprites said:

Nlc Clouds Over Halesowen

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Missed that baby

A long week of visiting relatives as completely thrown me off the NLC track, but it does show it`s never over till it`s over

We have another factor to consider, more so this season than in any other

The new commercial space `war` (such as SpaceX). which is resulting in more rocket exhaust partials & moisture in the mesosphere  

Over the next couple of night`s... it`s the peak of the Perseids meteor shower so my cameras will be out tonight

and maybe some August NLC`s

[Sprites]

I missed them too, I'd given up on NLCs for this year. 

Shame the full moon is at the Persied peak, and the Geminids this year

The Persieds are decreasing according to this 

 

It’s Not Just You: The Perseids Really Are Getting Weaker

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It peaks the nights of August 11-12, but it's no longer the year's most reliable meteor shower.

 

Edited August 11, 2022 by Sprites

[Iceman2606]

 

[Arnie Pie]

@Iceman2606

"August 11/12 does seem incredibly late for noctilucent cloud sightings but a fair few reports into Scotland and N England already tonight"

Keeping an eye on the euro cams for later on ...  an interesting article concerning the amount of rocket launches over the last few weeks

Spaceweather.com Time Machine

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1 hour ago, Sprites said:

Shame the full moon is at the Persied peak, and the Geminids this year

The Persieds are decreasing according to this

I have started an 8" continues time-lapse from around 10pm last night and I haven't seen any thing yet

[Rush2019]

Did anyone spot anything?  Too tired to stay awake, nodded off during the most likely time for a viewing.  Did wake to see the sky full of the most gorgeous deep orange of the sunrise.  Yesterday's pics show them quite high up too, disappointed I missed it.  Thanks for your pics peeps.

[ChannelThunder]

Pretty mad seeing photos of such late (and great!) displays, when usually it's said in here that around mid-July is pretty much the end of the season.

[mushymanrob]

BAD NEWS....

 NASA's AIM spacecraft, which monitors noctilucent clouds, may be dead due to problems with an onboard battery. Mission controllers have not yet given up all hope, so stay tuned.

Spacelive.

[Jamie M]

5 hours ago, mushymanrob said:

BAD NEWS....

 NASA's AIM spacecraft, which monitors noctilucent clouds, may be dead due to problems with an onboard battery. Mission controllers have not yet given up all hope, so stay tuned.

Spacelive.

Dear oh dear 

[toggerob]

AIM did quite well in serving for 15 years considering it was only designed to be operational for a mere 2, maybe in the not-so distant future NASA could recruit the help of Space-X and use a cargo Spaceship to bring it back down for a overhaul as part of a test mission.. wishful thinking but never say never. 

On the plus-side the NLC season opening is only 2 months away and this year i'm anticipating what effect, if any, last year's eruption of 'Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai' has had regarding the upper-layer ice composition.

[mushymanrob]

it is going to be a blow, as we will have to rely on live cameras across europe now. at least with the aim satelite we knew when the season started and how strong sighting were likely to be..

[Dreckly]

Page has some useful information, there is a link under NLC predictions which could be helpful.

http://johnmurrell.org.uk/nlc.html

[Sprites]

On 24/03/2023 at 15:26, mushymanrob said:

BAD NEWS....

 NASA's AIM spacecraft, which monitors noctilucent clouds, may be dead due to problems with an onboard battery. Mission controllers have not yet given up all hope, so stay tuned.

Spacelive.

This was on Spaceweather

https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/2023/03/16/nasas-aim-mission-ends-operational-support/

[Gray-Wolf]

Someone noting the 'Hunga-Tonga' water still in the strat over on the Arctic melt season thread

I'd imagine any excess moisture would lead to better displays this season?

All we need is the dust!

[Arnie Pie]

11 hours ago, Gray-Wolf said:

All we need is the dust!

Hopefully with all the commercial satellites being launched some of their exhaust contamination particles may produce that dust

It would be nice of NASA to update the blogs concerning the AIM satellite - it`s been a long 2 weeks

looks like we could be relying on the the Russian websites for any forecasting .. or hopefully a Japanese forum site (if we can find one?)

At least the 5 day transit around the pole is a constant

The numbers in red represent days out

Edited May 9, 2023 by Arnie Pie

[Arnie Pie]

Still early days yet to kick off a new season thread

although the newest post from here caught my attention

https://www.facebook.com/groups/nlcaroundtheworld

Not NLC`s for me

Anyway with the high possibility of no AIM daisy`s to aid us in some kind of forecasting

I have been trying to find a Japanese/ Korean NCL forum site (see the reason in the above post)

I`ve only been searching Google, but to no avail

I don`t tweet -  so was wondering if peoples who do, can search 

is a tweet search even a thing

Edited May 11, 2023 by Arnie Pie